A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.