God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

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.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.