What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on that day when life first appeared, yet i was embittered, I wept for what i had lost and what the world had lost and would yet lose again.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.

He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and angels can't love the way men and women do.

His song would be our only path, despite any sins w might have committed and any punishments we might deserve. What we believed in, and what we said aloud, we could create before His eyes and in His image.

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

As good as the people are in your life, there are no perfect people. There is no perfect boss, no perfect friend, no perfect neighbor, no perfect spouse. Give people room to be human. Quit expecting them to perform perfectly all the time.

But for the grace of God, that could be me.

How much time are you spending down on yourself, feeling guilty for past mistakes, telling God what you don't deserve? That's a lot of emotional energy that's not doing any good. God hears you; He knows you're sincere. But God is not moved by our guilt; He's moved by our faith.