I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.