At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing something good. Really, they're just deluding themselves.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship.