Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, they get too creative. I like regular food, just no meat in it.

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.

While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.