The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.