God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

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

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!