Salvation comes through gratitude

"You cannot persuade a person to conversion by instilling a feeling of guilt. No one ever made a permanent commitment based on guilt. If all it took to be saved was feeling guilty, then everyone would be saved, for we have all experienced guilt at one time or another. No, salvation comes through gratitude, recognising and acknowledging the sacrifice that was paid by Christ to take away not only the guilt, but the sin which caused it."
-- Lionel Hartley, The Beatitudes, Philadelphia Publications, 1977