What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.