But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.