Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

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.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.