“We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.”

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.

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 am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we’ll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we’re all one but continue to try to win.

People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

Chasing unavailable people is self abandonment.

The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

The hardest part is when the leaves abandon the trees. I seem to always lose a part of me.