The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.