“We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.”

“Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.”

“The difference between us and the one being disciplined by the church is not that we're not all sinners...but that we repent of our sin and he doesn't...we take God's side against our own sin”

“God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.”

“Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.”

“There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.”