At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!

To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.

My peace, my companionship," Olivia said softly, "come from my surety that the Lord loves me. Surety that because I've asked, believing He's redeemed me, He's also forgiven me and accepts me—now, as I am. He lives inside me, walks beside me, in the form of His Holy Spirit. He holds my heart, my life. He is my heart, my life." As

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.

The saint was once a sinner; the sinner will one day be a saint. The sinner is the child; the saint is the grown man. He who separates himself from sinners, regarding them as wicked men to be avoided, is like a man avoiding contact with little children because they are unwise, disobedient, and play with toys.

When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.