What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

To progress is always to begin again.

As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

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.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.