When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.

Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.