Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'
The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.
If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.
One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him.
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.
In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.