Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.