You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.

You are a totally loved moral failure.

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

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.