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

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.

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

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

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.