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.

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

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.

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.