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

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

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.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.