"If we believe the Bible, then all Christians are NEW WINESKINS and yet, you know it's true, most of us are taught to live from an old wineskin mentality. We live our life trying to sew patches on all the weak areas we perceive in our "skin" or FLESH! And the really weird thing is we buy those patches from all over the place! A book here, a tape there, so and so's ministry, etc, become the fixes we use to correct what we see as flaws in our life. And Christians end up as some kind of bizarre, crazy-quilt collection of patches sewn on their GOD-GIVEN NEW LIFE! Huh. That's a rather arrogant assumption on our part, isn't it? That we can improve on what God has already done. Ahhhh, the fallacy of religion...that we can change God's mind about us by WHAT WE DO!"

- Jamie Weeks

"You are destined to reign in life. The power to reign does not depend on your family background, your educational qualifications, how you look or how much savings you have in your bank account. The power to reign is based entirely on Jesus and Him alone. We are driven to “do, do, do”, forgetting that Christianity is actually “done, done, done”. What believers do is that they take the system of the world and apply it to their Christian life. Instead of depending on God’s grace for His favor and blessings to flow, they depend on their self-efforts to try to deserve God’s favor and blessings. Yet, God’s way is not for us to be blessed by our own efforts. God’s blessings are based entirely on His grace. Grace is His undeserved, unearned favor."

- Joseph Prince

"Jesus chose to step into humanity not simply to clean up a mess but to make a way for you and I to experience a truly restored life. Life like it was intended to be. Jesus’ death on the cross took care of a messy sin issue. Jesus’ resurrection from the grave took care of a life issue. Salvation is not simply getting cleaned up, it’s receiving real life, His complete, eternal life within us. Jesus gave His life for us, so that He could give His life to us, so He could live His life through us, as us."

- Art Henkel

"Knowing His heart has been the quest of every well-meaning Christian from even before the time Jesus walked the earth. Not only do we wish to know His heart, but we also long to hear His voice. We want to know when He speaks to us, and what He’s saying. This desire to know and hear Him is built into every human heart. It springs from our sincere and unaltered need for true relationship with our Creator."

- Darin Hufford

"To many, the Christian life is like an iron bed; firm at both ends, but sagging in the middle. On one end, you trust Christ as Savior and get your sins forgiven. On the other end, one day you will go to heaven. In between gets pretty desperate. Where is the abundant life that Jesus promised? The Christian life is not meant to be a struggle. It’s meant to be a rest. We enter that rest when we learn to live as Jesus lived: from the life of Another within us and out through us."

- Dan Stone

"The good news of grace doesn’t stop by causing one to understand that he is free from the law. Genuine grace not only delivers us from something, but also delivers us to Someone. Grace opens our eyes to the union we share with Jesus Christ. It doesn’t give the believer an excuse to become lethargic and lazy. Instead it energizes him with the divine life of Jesus in such a way that he serves God with supernatural power. Grace is the divine enablement for one to powerfully express the life of Jesus Christ through his lifestyle."

- Steve McVey

"Jesus Christ said He came to give life. What kind of person needs life? The answer was obvious: only the dead. ‘As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins.” Eph. 2:1 . From God’s point of view, the problem of a man is not just that he is a sinner in need of forgiveness; his greater problem is that he is dead and in need of life."

- Bob George

"God is NOT interested to reform our life. It is NOT in His mind to bring us to a certain stage of REFINEMENT. He is only interested in a new creation in Christ Jesus, not a modified old sinner.

- Watchman Nee

"Our world is full of people on a quest for ultimate reality. Religion can be tiring – a treadmill of legislated performance powered by guilt and fear. It is to people like many of us – tired of religion and perhaps tired of our own striving to find alternatives to religion – that Jesus says the following words: " Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matt. 11:28-30 NASU. Notice that Jesus is not pointing toward a different and better religion, but instead He invites us to Himself as an alternative to the weary way of dead religion."

- Bruxy Cavey

"From the day we are born we are conditioned to think, sense and judge in accordance with appearances, that is, the natural world and how it presents itself. When we are born again it is vital that we learn how to perceive the kingdom of God which is contrary to everything we formerly know. Even if we have been involved in other religious systems which claim to know the spiritual world we need this renewal of the mind, because what characterize every religious system is self effort; what you must do to change, what you must do to satisfy the gods, how you must perform to make yourself acceptable to the deity."

- Ole Henrik Skjelstad