this is good...

“This is a kingdom that can be entered only by one right—the right of sin, affirmed, confessed, and deplored. Blind man, your blindness is your certificate; you have no other. Broken-hearted, wounded man, your contrition is your credentials.

“Do not try to get up your strength. When you lie flat in your weakness, your attitude is most acceptable to heaven. To try to appear with some decorousness in His presence is to enhance your sin. To come panting, heaving, out of breath, gasping, dying—that is a guarantee of good hearing in the presence of God. He resents our fullness, not our poverty: It is when we are great that He has nothing to say to us, not when we are small in our own esteem.” –Joseph Parker

thanks, dad, for the great quotes.....they help throughout the day....