Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

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.

La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.