“Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”

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.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

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

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.

As I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.

These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn’t accept money from strangers.

Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.