To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase 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.