Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

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.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.