And if you are already flying upside down and don’t know it, your cleverness will do you little good.
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: “the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth”
God’s address is at the end of your rope.
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.