Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.
Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.
The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.
But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.