Grace is God-given power to live differently.

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.

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.

We are often harsher judges than God himself.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.

A moment with Jesus changed everything.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.

I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.