It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.

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.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.