The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

God loves you just because He loves you.

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.