To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.