Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

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

Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.