Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

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.

Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them.

Because, he says, it hurts to think about things that you can't have or help. S'better not to think about it.

Women forgive injuries but never forget slights.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.

What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are around the globe like the blossom springing on the branches of the Kadamba tree.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.