The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

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.

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.