Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.