If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the gospel in and on all parts of our life.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.