Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

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.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Love is the soul of a divine being.

the only weapon you have got to conquer fear, it is will not to fail

I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

The cube and the sphere are the sole working tools of creation