If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

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.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

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.

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.