The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.