Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.