My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.

As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.