There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.