The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.