Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.
Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.