A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

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

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

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

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

Today's miseries could be tomorrow's loveful memories.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.