The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

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

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

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.

Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.