Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.