Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

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 your kids get excited, let them have that feeling and share the excitement with them. Sharing makes it bigger.

We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

I was always my own teacher.

Always maintain good relations with your public.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood

Patience is the absence of expectation.

Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.

Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.