Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.

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

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?