It will cost you to follow Christ, but it costs even more not to follow Him.
For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.
If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.
Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.
The heart of the new birth is the new birth of the heart.
At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.