Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

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

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

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

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

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.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me.

When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind