What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.

Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.