God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

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 look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.