Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.