God loved me so much He sent His Son to take away the sins of the world. That's a heart that scales any mountain. Kicks down any doors. Relentlessly pursues us down darkened alleyways. God will do anything to reach me with His love - including sending His only beloved Son to the cross and raising Him to life again. Thanks to Jesus, I am a new creation. Eve didn't know what we know. She did not know how far God would go. But we do.

Mistakes and sins and imperfections were never meant to be bottled up. We need to shed those feelings of impending doom at the foot of the cross.

Jesus never focused on the failure. He focused on the restoration.

Sin is what was done to you, or sometimes it's what you did, but sin is not who you are.

When the plan of God for my life causes me to face my hurts and wrongful attitudes, I will not run from these things but will find healing and restoration from dealing with my hurts through the power of the Holy Spirit.

If we proclaim a gospel that doesn't emphasize transformation, we end up with a deficit of clean containers, which consequently creates a shortage of God's manifest presence on the earth.

What good is it to acknowledge Jesus Christ when there is no change of heart and therefore no change in action?

Those who truly believe will exhibit a changed nature and no longer produce the fruit of an evil one.

A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers.

Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine.

My name at the first was Graceless.

Thus I continued about a year; all which time our neighbours did take me to be a very godly man, a new and religious man, and did marvel much to see such a great and famous alteration in my life and manners; and indeed so it was, though yet I knew not Christ, nor grace, nor faith, nor hope; for, as I have well seen since, had I then died, my state had been most fearful.