Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.

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

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.

Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.