Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there...
The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite forheaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is notthe X-r...
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the...
The Apostle Paul’s antidote for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine. . . .everything that exists—including evil—is ordained by a holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly....
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What wa...
The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: You [God] will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever. F...
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationa...
Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.
Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.
He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts...
Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is i...
Your mind was made to know and love God.
God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and...