God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

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 wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.