Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.