There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.