“God transforms us one area at a time.”

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

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you – it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.

Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.

You didnt access love, love accessed you!

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.

Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

We are often harsher judges than God himself.

Responsibility is good for your soul.

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

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.