The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

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.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.

I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within.

If people were like me, there would be no mob, because I don't play that game.

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.