As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.
Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.