If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?