We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.
Do not dare not to dare.
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
Here at last is the thing I was made for.