Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.