Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

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.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

The air between us crackles like it always has, like it has its own energy or frequency. One of us is going to bend. One of us is going to break.

Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors.

I was lucky that I had friends who have maintained a very regular attitude with me and haven't changed how they interact with me.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

Ive had about 140 albums released, and Ive done everything I wanted to do.

Proper prospecting prevents poverty.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you