“God has shown supreme generosity by providing a means of salvation for a wicked and rebellious human race. He would have been just in allowing us all to perish in our sins. Yet instead of treating us with the wrath our sin deserves, he extended grace to us, providing atonement through the perfect work of Christ, adopting us as his very sons and daughters, and lavishing upon us the bounty of heaven, an afterlife in his presence for all eternity. This is unspeakable generosity.”
James S. Spiegel in How to Be Good in a World Gone Bad: Living a Life of Christian Virtue (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2004) 95.