Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace