Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.