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?

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.