If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.

Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.

People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).