We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Only God is perfect! None of us comes within a country, not a country mile, but a whole country, in proximity to perfection.

Revival begins here: with a profound awareness of God's absolute holiness, our absolute sinfulness, and our complete inability to bridge the divide that separates us.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

Heaven's justice and righteousness must be recognized and maintained. Apart from grace, you find yourself bankrupt and insolvent, desperately in debt and helpless to meet God's judgment. Therefore, your only hope is to fly to the wounded side of the Lord, who in His life kept God's law perfectly and in His death paid the price of your rebellion.

Rubbing salt in my wound won't change what I did.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

To convince the world of the truth of Christianity, it must first be convinced of sin. It is only sin that renders Christ intelligible." Andrew Murray, The Spirit of Christ

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.