If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.