The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

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 was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

It's not conversion 'therapy

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.