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

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

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

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

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

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.