Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.