You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.