You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.