I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

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

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.

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.