We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

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.

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

The more you kick me when I'm down, the more it truly helps.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.