The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.