Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.

The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.