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

Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

To progress is always to begin again.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.