Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

I don't know if I'll always be a pastor.

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.