If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.