Don't coast through life without a passion.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.