Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.