We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we’re in a world that’s so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.

It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.