Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.