A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it's mediated through many different human authors, nevertheless is God breathed and is revealed by God and is utterly reliable and all that it says, with all of its different literary genres, it's trustworthy and without mistake or distortion. It is trustworthy and therefore, because it is from God it has God's authority.

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.