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.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

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.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.