To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

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.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.