God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

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 shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese?

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

The things I don't are the things I have yet to learn.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.