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

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

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.

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.

Every day I see lot of things cluttered in my surroundings. But that neither stresses me nor does it puts me down. Instead, it tells me that things will give you trouble if you see it as trouble.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.