And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

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.

Let us work joyfully while we have the strength.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Anger is a momentary madness.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?