Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save 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.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry