What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.
The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.
The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.