One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.