You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.