The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

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.

When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.

Attachment is the root of all suffering.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.