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.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

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 his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.