We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.