If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

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

I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.