When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

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.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.