The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.

Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.

It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.

We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.~Quote by Brennan Manning

God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.

The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)

What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' --the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.

[An] explanation that was simply in the best traditions of female logic:"I don't know why, but I want it, so you need to give me that expensive thing.

You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don’t have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life’s lessons.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

Art without life is a poor affair.

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.