When believers allow sin and compromise to be in their lives, it drains away the power in the work of the Cross and the power of the Spirit that is resident in a believer's life.

Rather than act like a victim who cannot do anything about myself or my circumstance, today I start the process of acknowledging my sin and removing these attitudes, actions, and sins that are unworthy of the new creation I am today in Christ. I can be free, and I will be free. I will be ALL that God intended for me to be!

The Church calls people to be not spiritual mediocrities, but great saints, and this is why its moral ideals are so stringent. Yet the Church also mediates the infinite mercy of God to those who fail to live up to that ideal (which means practically everyone). This is why its forgiveness is so generous and so absolute. To grasp both of these extremes is to understand the Catholic approach to morality.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

I think, said Jane decidedly, that I should apologise to God.

She was still haunted by the ghost of the cake she had drowned.

It is regrettable that many Christian psychologists talk more about such things as unconscious motivation and emotional damage than they do about sin and responsibility.

Confession designed to restore lost blessings is a management technique, it is not repentance.

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth" (1 John 1:8). It seems God leads us through failure toward maturity, rather than doing whatever is needed for us to move past ongoing failure.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

How does a blind man say he was wrong? I thought you were lost, but you were never lost to God.