“Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.”

“One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.”

“By the law is the knowledge of sin [Rom 3:20], so the word of grace comes only to those who are distressed by a sense of sin and tempted to despair.”

“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?”

“If God can truly forgive any type of sin willingly, then why did He cause His own son to be killed for the sins of other people?”

“So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.”

“Sin can read sin, but dimly scans high grace.”

“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.”

“Man does not know himself truly except as he knows himself confronted by God. Only in that confrontation does he become aware of his full stature and freedom and of the evil in him.”

“If Jesus truly died for the sins of the people, as our Christian fellows claim, then why are people still dying even today?”