Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.