Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.