Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.
If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.
God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.
Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.
Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.
You can't praise what you don't prize.
Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.
Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.
Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: