The image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed.... Regardless of their record or character, all human beings have an irreducible glory and significance to them, because God loves them.... So we must treasure each and every human being as a way of showing due respect for the majesty of their owner and Creator.

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

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

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.