The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, "Stop sinning, " it says, "Behold your God.

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

He's always been known to be entrepenurious.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.

[talking about the race at Imola circuit] There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Heaven is not a figment of imagination. It is not a feeling or an emotion. It is not the "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." It is a prepared place for a prepared people.

It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

I like my job. That's become very clear to me. I know how to pretend to do things that I otherwise didn't know how to do.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.