Indifference was our greatest enemy.

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.

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.

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.

Life can never be perfect. Don’t let anyone fool you into believing that it will be.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Jump and the net will appear.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

You can tell a lot about yourself by how you go about things.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.