I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

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

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