We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.