You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?

No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.