“This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.”

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”

The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…

The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.

I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.

Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

I’d never do a film that would hurt anyone’s sentiments, be it Indian or not.

We would consider anyone that we think is right.

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right.

They didn’t really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything.

I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.