A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

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

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

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?

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.