God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.