Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

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

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.