Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.