If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

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.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!

This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings