My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

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

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.