God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

You are under-qualified for the job of God.

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.

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