Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

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

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.