There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them. —C. S. Lewis
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts. —George Müller
The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it. —Charles Spurgeon We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are a...
The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.
Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh...
So look out a window. Take a walk. Talk with your friend. Use your God-given skills to paint or draw or build a shed or write a book. But imagine it - all of it - in its original condition. The happy...
One hundred percent of royalties from Safely Home go to help persecuted Christians and to spread the gospel in their countries.
Old Zhou Jin began singing a hymn Quan had heard and reluctantly sung many times since childhood: One day I’ll die for the Lord.
Now, in comparison to both Matthew 17 and Revelation 1, it appears that the risen Christ, before his ascension, was not yet fully glorified. If he would have been glorified, surely his identity would...
If your faith is based on lack of affliction, it’s on the brink of extinction and is only a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call away from collapse. Token faith will not survive suffering....
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. —David Brainerd
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. —C. S. Lewis
If God were to end history and reign forever in a distant Heaven, Earth would be remembered as a graveyard of sin and failure. Instead, Earth will be redeemed and resurrected. In the end it will be a...
God has his hands on the earth. He will not let go—even when it requires that his hands be pierced by nails. Both his incarnation and those nails secured him to Earth and its eternal future. In a rede...
C. S. Lewis put it this way: We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a...
But doesn’t Shengjing promise to wipe away all tears? That promise is for after he defeats sin and ends suffering and sets up his Kingdom. That time has not yet come.
Andrew Carnegie said, The almighty dollar bequeathed to a child is an almighty curse. No man has the right to handicap his son with such a burden as great wealth.
An unholy world will never be won to Christ by an unholy church.
We inherited from our Eden-dwelling ancestors a sense of their pre-Fall happiness. Our hearts refuse to settle for sin, suffering, boredom, and purposelessness—we long for something better. Were we me...
Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more? Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lower...