The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.