To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?
Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.
Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.
The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.
We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.
Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.
Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.
Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.
We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.
Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.
When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.
When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.
Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.
It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.
And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?
"How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.
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