To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.

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.

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

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

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.