Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

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

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.