What we do with a little time, a little talent, and a little money tells God a lot.
There is no one human individual or group who can fully bear or manifest all that is involved in the image of God, so that there is a sense in which that image is collectively possessed. The image of...
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 happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ.
Sometimes we read Scripture about rejoicing or trusting and think, Easy to say, but you’re not facing what I am. But few people have faced conditions as dire as Habakkuk, with the impending destructio...
Romans 8 contains a powerful theology of suffering. There’s the groaning of those dying without hope, and in contrast, the groaning of those in childbirth. Both processes are painful, yet they are ver...
Perry continued, his voice even but firm as granite; Do you prefer the easy platitudes? You said you didn't. How dare you speak about God like He's some frivolous clown? Do you think you're the only o...
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different t...
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]
Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we’re smart, we’ll live not for the dot, but...
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...
I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back—but God has a bigger shovel. — R. G. LeTourneau
How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God’s Word?
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 is the owner of all things, and we are simply his stewards.
God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us. —Sinclair Ferguson
God could have created us without loving us, but He would not have gone to the Cross without loving us.