There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.