Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

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.

It is ironic that we are particular about flushing out all the dirt through the Drain, but we continue to retain a lot of it in our Brain.

Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.Ella knew precisely how he felt.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

I was like a trashcan. I took everything.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.