Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.