Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.

Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

Reading is a breezy journey to enjoy, not a whirlwind to escape!

Retrospect: the sweetener of life.

The magic to attain victory is simple…..Just believe.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.