What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

Explanations are a substitute for trust.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

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

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.