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

It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

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.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.