Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.