I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.

The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace

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

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!