Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties