Another good quote

This is from Comforts from the Cross, by Elyse Fitzpatrick.

"Faith is all that is necessary. However, not only is faith necessary for your salvation, but it's also necessary for your ongoing obedience. Responding to His love and grace is the only way to true or what I call "gospelized" obedience, because all other obedience always degenerates into penance or trying to avoid punishment. Other forms of obedience simply don't measure up, because love for God isn't the motive. And if love isn't the motive, your obedience will always be motivated by love for yourself. It seems upside down to say that God motivates our obedience by freeing us from law and by declaring that He has no wrath for us, but it's true, and true faith embraces it. . .
. . . Of course, sometimes we feel guilty, and we don't really care that God isn't angry with us. We know we've let our spouse or kids or parents or friends or employer or church or ourselves down, and we just can't seem to get past it. In these times we've got to see that our problem with guilt stems from our pride and from our idolatry of people's opinions. There's only one Person whose opinion really matters, and all the rest of our guilt is just our desire to [have the approval of others] and make ourselves happy. Rejoice because your Savior bore even this sin for you!"

Profound!