Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

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.

Teaching starts with Tests.

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

In Heaven you're going to be the same make, but a new model!

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.

Well, I never got to meet Jack Nicholson.

I need different people to tap into different energies for different things.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.