Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

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.

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.

According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.

I trust the Universe Implicitly, therefore my experience is happening FOR me and not TO me. I trust the Universe. I trust the process.

Modesty and chastity are twins

Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.