Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

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.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.