Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

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

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.