The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.