There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy

All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.