Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'