The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.

Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.