God created me – and you – to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion – namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.
God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.
We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.
You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
Books don’t change people; paragraphs do. Sometimes even sentences.
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
Go, send, or disobey.
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings.
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
Your mind was made to know and love God.
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.