To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.

If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.