Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.