People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

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.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you.

I want to earn more money but my body says "I'm tired, " and my spirit says "I have no desire, " whoever said "I'm not a trinity" is a complete liar!

You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

They were beautiful nothings

This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be fed an estimated total of four peanuts.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.