We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

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.

Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

What we can do for another is the test of powers what we can suffer is the test of love.

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.

Nobody controls me. I travel with my husband when I can, when I know that I can go, and I know that my son is okay alone for a few days with the help.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.