A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.