It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

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

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.