If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.