God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.

Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

There's no shortage of material in life.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.