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

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'