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

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.