Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.