Clark Whitten > Quotes

“His intention is to lift us up, not put us down, to empower us with truth, not shame us with guilt. Our heavenly Father is a great and loving Father, and He is not the author of the sham that legalism passes off as repentance.”
― Clark Whitten, Pure Grace: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaiminated Grace

“Christians are not required to confess their sins to God in order to be forgiven, we already are forgiven. With the exception of First John 1:9, there is no biblical basis for a believer to confess sins to God for forgiveness.”
― Clark Whitten, Pure Grace: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaiminated Grace

“Our sin debt has been paid in full with a currency we do not and never will possess.”
― Clark Whitten, Pure Grace: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaiminated Grace

“Legalistic Christianity is in the sin management business full-time and failing miserably at the job.”
― Clark Whitten, Pure Grace: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaiminated Grace

“If behavior modification is the goal, and it is with all legalists, then repentance is viewed as the primary method of accomplishing it.”
― Clark Whitten, Pure Grace: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaiminated Grace

“Grace with conditions that depend on humanity’s performance to stay in it is no grace at all. Grace, so called, that is uncertain, conditional, or fearful is flat out no grace at all. Period! Exclamation mark!”
― Clark Whitten, Pure Grace: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaiminated Grace