God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

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.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?