The key question in order to change you is not 'What would Jesus do?' but "What has Jesus done for you?"

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we're under audit.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.