Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God.

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.

Where your delight is, the rest of your world is going to follow.

If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.