God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and his Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.... When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.

Reading is more important to me than eating.