If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'