For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.

The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.