Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things and beyond that is your work in life which isn't the same as your ministry and then beyond that is your life. And this is what God is more interested in than your work or your ministry-what He gets out of your life is the person you become. And He has plans for you, and these are long-range plans.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.