Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

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

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.