The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

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.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

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

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.