The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.

Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

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 an incomprehensibly great God!

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves.