If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.

Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place.

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.