If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.