Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.