God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.