God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

All life-changing love is inconvenient.