Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.