There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

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.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

Real compassion only exists in silence

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,

I would give my lungs to the fish so that they may rise out of the water and feel the wind.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist."

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.