You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.