We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.

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

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