People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.

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.

Love everyone. Good people create an impression and not so good people teach you a lesson.

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.

It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.

My prayer for you is simple. May the power of love be with you. May kindness adorn your heart, and may simplicity find a peaceful place in your thoughts and actions.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

Creativity is making regret free mistakes, Wisdom is knowing which ones have value

I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it.

Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.