We rarely do anything with on single motive.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

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

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.