Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

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

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.