The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

Watch to see where God is working and join Him in His work.

The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.

Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.

How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.

A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.

Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God's agenda.

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

There is no success without hardship.

Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

My body is my body, every part of it.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.