Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

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

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

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