Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

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.

Expecting gratitude for a gift is... unseemly.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . .

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

I have a Russian heart.

Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm... she had dimples of iron.

The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.