I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

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

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.

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

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

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