My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

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

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

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

Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.