‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.