The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

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.

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

On Easter day let us promise to resurrect, transcend, and transform our conscience for the happiness of mankind.

My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.