Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

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.

I am not the human being that you see. I am the light. In my heart, I feel dances of electromagnetic waves of love and spirit.

Because we have loved profoundly, Because we have given much, Because we have hoped passionately, Because we have desired intensely, We allow ourselves to be infinitely hurt.

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.

Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.

Nations die first in the big cities.

The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.