Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself

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

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

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