The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.

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.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

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