Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

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

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.