'The deepest motive for our sanctification, for holy living and good works, is not our pyschology, not how I "feel" about God and Jesus. Nor is it even our faith. Rather, that profoundest of motives is the resurrection power of Christ, the new creation we are and have already been made part of in Christ by his Spirit.'
Richard B Gaffin Jr, By Faith, Not By Sight: Paul and the Order of Salvation, p. 78.