You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.