God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

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

We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

Ultimately, our relationship with Christ is the one thing we cannot do without.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.