His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.

Jesus doesn't adjust to us, and He doesn't submit to our whims. We adjust to Jesus and submit to Him. Jesus is King, not an accessory.

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

What could be more encouraging than realizing that Jesus calls the unqualified?

Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.

Our relationship with Jesus is based on grace- on the unexpected, undeserved, counterintuitive love of God.

Jesus offers undeserved love, a love we don't deserve and can therefore never lose.

There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.

Err on the side of awesome.

You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

Do not deny the truth.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.