There is a direct relationship between a person’s grasp and experience of God’s grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule – it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory.
Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.
A person’s faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.
Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.
Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.
To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
Don’t obey God to get things, obey God to get God.
The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn’t come through – You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our ‘incurable God-sickness.’
Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God’s family freely by grace.
It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.