The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Thoughts are the place where we can and must begin to change. There the light of God first begins to move upon us through the word of Christ, and there the divine Spirit begins to direct our will to God and his way.

You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God--a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being--before ordinary people, we have gone wrong

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'