Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

I wish I hated my own sin as much as I hate everyone else's.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind?

The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.

The law was given to crush our self-confidence and drive us to Jesus.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

The comfort of that lifestyle began to eat away at me like a cancer almost. It began to rob me of my joy and my faith. It kind of robbed me of my purpose.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within the limitations of biology.

You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.