What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

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.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.