A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to savingly trust in a Divine object.
Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man’s make-up.
Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.
The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob’s faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset.
When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.
Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil’s overthrow of our first parents.
Real prayer is communion with God.
The three things that motivate creative people – autonomy, mastery, purpose!
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they’re not enough.
Asking “Why?” can lead to understanding. Asking “Why not?” can lead to breakthroughs.
Do what you can’t and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.
The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.
All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.