Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
A Barna poll shows that for every American who believes he or she is going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they’re going to Heaven.[4] Yet Christ said otherwise: Enter through the narrow gate. For...
When our sin reached its full horror, God’s love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God’s love for you, look at the cross.
What we do with a little time, a little talent, and a little money tells God a lot.
We’ve been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But
There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. C. S. Lewis
The people of God ought to be the happiest people in all the wide world! People should be coming to us constantly and asking the source of our joy and delight. A. W. TOZER
The only proper foundation for optimism is the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Any other foundation is sand, not rock. It will not bear the weight of our eternity.
The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.
Our degree of happiness in life largely depends on: the amount of happiness we believe should be rightfully ours our ability to find delight in a fallen world God will redeem our ability to see the li...
Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy.[717]
Matthew Henry, the Puritan preacher and Bible commentator, made this statement after a thief stole his money: Let me be thankful first because I was never robbed before; second, although they took my...
John Wesley said, A sour religion is the devil’s religion.[284] The sure way to have a sour religion is to believe in a sour God. We play right into the devil’s hands when we fail to recognize and tea...
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis
I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back—but God has a bigger shovel. — R. G. LeTourneau
God provides not only in what he gives us, but at times in what he keeps from us. Have you ever noticed that excess money just seems to dissipate in a multitude of directions?
God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us. —Sinclair Ferguson
Giving sacrificially also means giving the best. If we have two blankets and someone needs one of them, sacrificial giving hands over the better of the two. Sadly, much of our giving is merely discard...
Dr. Martin Luther King said, ‘If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sw...
Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.