Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

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

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

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

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

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.

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.