To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.