We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God