People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.