God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

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

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.