Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

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.

Sometimes you will bleed if you want to lead.

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.