...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.

If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.