heavy, ever-increasing grace

"i hope that from our youth we have known the necessity of dependence upon God, but i am certain that dependence is a growing feeling. growing Christians think themselves nothing; full-grown Christians think themselves less than nothing. good men are like ships; the fuller they are, the lower they sink in the stream. the more grace a man has, the more he complains of his want of grace. grace is not a kind of food which creates a sense of fullness. . . the more you receive the more you long for."
-charles spurgeon, "the old man's sermon"

"finding God only deepens and heightens the pursuit of God. one taste of obedience and we want more. by feasting on God we hunger for Him all the more."
-richard foster

where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord