The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.

If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.

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

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

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.