If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing him with steadfast passion and enthralled fury — instead of loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; instead of attributing to him glory and honor and praise and power and wisdom and strength — we just try to take his toys and run. It is still idolatry to want God for his benefits but not for himself.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.