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

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.