Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.

If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.

God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.