As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

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.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."