The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

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.

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Start first and increase your lead.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

I think we need to do two things - or three things. One is we need to put a stop on refugees until we can vet.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.