If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.