Sin makes our armor vulnerable to attack from Satan, who then gains permission from God to attack us in the area where we have failed to uphold righteousness. If we break down in moral purity, Satan comes in and establishes a stronghold. If we give place to bitterness and unwillingness to forgive, we break fellowship with God and others. If we become money-focused, we fall into greed and deception. Sin is a vicious cycle that leaves us weak and vulnerable to ever more sin.

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Don't haul stuff around with you.

One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we've done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don't even deserve to.

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.

God is well able to deal with our sins; but He cannot deal with a man under accusation, because such a man is not trusting in the Blood.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

This side of the grave, no one--and I don't care who they are or what sin or sins they have or are committing--is too far gone.

Man's greatest need is forgiveness while his greatest desire is power.