The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.

If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.