Egos do not shrink when we stop dreaming big. With big, small, and even stagnant dreams, we will need to kill our self-promoting instinct.

Men and women may face temptations peculiar to their sex, but we both share a deep, common depravity and a profound need for mercy.

The cross will seem like an overreaction as long as man is big and God is small. The essence of sin is not harm done to man, but indignities done to God.