I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

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.

To progress is always to begin again.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.