If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

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