Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.