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.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

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.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.