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

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.