“Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.”

God never breaks His promises.

God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.

Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.

Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

We are here to love. Not much else matters.

The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.

We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.

Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.

The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.

The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.