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

The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.