Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone.

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.

You will find joy in everyday life with a heart of thankfulness.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

We usually get what we anticipate.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn’t imagine belonging to anyone else.