The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.