Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.

The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.