... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

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

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.