God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

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.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of "How" and "Why" to the freedom of "Who?"

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