Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It’s a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.
Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.
You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.
One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.
The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.
In cities you have more image of God per square inch than anywhere else on Earth.
Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.
Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it’s intimacy with a personal friend.
Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties.
I am God and I am coming to find you.
The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.
True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.
The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.