191 quotes found
“Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?”
“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the ...”
“Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! God wills to be d...”
“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.”
“We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.”
“The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.”
“The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.”
“But we also need stories. Great stories.”
“God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.”
“The critical question for our generationand for every generationis this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all thefriends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, ...”
“Don't make peace with the sin in your life.”
“Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.”
“Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.”
“Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These ta...”
“If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.”
“All heroes are shadows of Christ”
“God without Christ is no God.”
“The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an extra that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to enhance your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has ...”
“...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.”
“When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance wisdom, might and riches they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to st...”
