“If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.”

Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back

Our righteousness doesn’t depend on our present performance but on Jesus’ finished performance.

It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.

Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.

A moment with Jesus changed everything.

A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’

Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, “I want a Dad.” But you won’t abide in anyone.

Don’t you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God’s eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

There is a divine purpose behind everything – and therefore a divine presence in everything.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.