For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

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.

Meditation is yoga for the mind, just as there is yoga of the body.

A timesheet is the budget of time management

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?

I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.