To progress is always to begin again.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

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

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