When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.

Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

It's never fun when we're in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.

Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.