Preach the gospel to yourself every day… there is never a day in our lives when we are so “good” we don’t need the gospel …despite my being a saint, I still sin every day in thought, word, deed, and motive. If I am aware of any subtle, or not so subtle, sins in my life, I acknowledge those to God. Even if my conscience is not indicting me for conscious sins, I still acknowledge to God that I have not even come close to loving Him with all my being or loving my neighbor as myself. I repent of those sins, and then I apply specific Scriptures that assure me of God’s forgiveness to those sins I have just confessed.

Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate (Jerry Bridges)