To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.