The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.