Receive it for the gift it is! Pause, and let the beauty minister to you. I receive this into my soul. Too often we just notice and go on, like a pedestrian who steps over a hundred-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk. Stop and pick it up! In these moments you open yourself and receive the beauty, the gift, the grace—receive it into your being. Let it bring to you God's love, his tenderness, his rich goodness.

I often tell my congregation and our national television audience that church membership will not save you, denominations will not save you, ritual will not save you, and singing "Amazing Grace" at the top of your lungs will not save you. And by all means, sitting in church will not guarantee immunity from satanic attack. Salvation only comes through faith in Christ. When you confess and forsake your sins, you are cleansed by the shed blood of Jesus.

Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world;

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.

In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.