1. Jesus becomes who you are and you become who he is. His kindness and patience and courage are given to you, and your lust and meanness and impatience are reckoned to him.
  2. What is most amazing to me is not that Jesus welcomed public transgressors into his company. What astounds me is that they came to him with the full expectation of not being turned away.
  3. If I had hated him even while a child, in his late teens I grew to loathe him as the very antithesis of the man I wanted to be.