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.

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

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?