For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

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.

Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are and where we're going.

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.