If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.