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

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.