“God transforms us one area at a time.”

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

The common denominator is that we all need help.

Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back

Our righteousness doesn’t depend on our present performance but on Jesus’ finished performance.

It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.

Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.

A moment with Jesus changed everything.

A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’

Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, “I want a Dad.” But you won’t abide in anyone.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.