I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.