If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.