“The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.”

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

When grace moves in guilt moves out.

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, “I can clean that if you want.” And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

Here’s what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that’s what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.

God’s highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

You’re special-not because of what you have. You’re special because of who you are.

The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.

On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

I loved you long before you loved me. It’s the only thing i have you beat at, and i’ll bring it up every chance i get.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.