Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.