If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.