Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.