“Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.”

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.

Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.

Or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.

Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.

Despite all of your mistakes, I stayed – and that was mine.