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

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.