The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

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

Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.

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.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.