If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about, what he cares about most is the redemption of the people he made.

Because we're sinners, we hurt each other, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. But

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

It teaches that man is an apostate creature, fallen from his original innocence, degraded in his nature, depraved in his thinking, prone toward evil, not good, and impacted by sin to the very core of his being.

I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (Rom. 7:18). As someone has said, even the spirituality we do possess is corrupted by our nature. We have nothing to brag about. On the contrary, God must always give us grace to bear with our faults and mercy to forgive our sins.

When we come to grips with the true state of our condition, we are ready to fully appreciate what God has done to rescue us from ourselves. It is imperative that we take seriously our true condition as fallen human beings.

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you'll be happier.