Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

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.

To be spiritual is not to be spiritual.August 11, 2016Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligious Leader

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

I’ll be off exploring, searching for those out-of-bounds places where dreams exist.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?