Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

We think of the Christian life as a 'changed life' but it is not that. What God offers us is an 'exchanged life,' a 'substituted life,' and Christ is our Substitute within.

Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

God's Riches At Christ's Expense.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner.

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ

Luther had said that grace alone can save; his followers took up his doctrine and repeated it word for word. But they left out its invariable corollary, the obligation to discipleship...The justification of the sinner in the world degenerated into the justification of sin and the world. Costly grace was turned into cheap grace without discipleship.

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.