The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

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.

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.