Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

You can't praise what you don't prize.

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?