The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

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.

Success doesn't happen overnight. It takes hard work, dedication and keep your eyes on the prize. Don't look back.

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.