There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus.An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.