Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.Pharisee-type believers unconsciously think they have earned God's blessing through their behavior. Guilt-laden believers are quite sure they have forfeited God's blessing through their lack of discipline or their disobedience. Both have forgotten the meaning of grace because they have moved away from the gospel and have slipped into a performance relationship with God.

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

God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.