When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.

In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.

You can do something no one else can do in a fashion no one else can do it.