Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

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