God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?”

Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.