If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.