When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."

The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.