Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.

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.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]

My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.