We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace