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.

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

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.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God tests His people through hardship.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.