When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

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.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

We also have the right to food in India.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

This is the only planet with chocolate, so we've got to save it.

It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.