The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.