God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises