Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.