God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

The man who sanctifies his wife understands that this is his divinely ordained responsibility... Is my wife more like Christ because she is married to me? Or is she like Christ in spite of me? Has she shrunk from His likeness because of me? Do I sanctify her or hold her back? Is she a better woman because she is married to me?

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.