"We are saved not just to be forgiven of our sins or to be assured of our eternity in heaven but we are saved to know God."
"He owes a debt to every lost person on the face of the planet. because he is owned by Christ he owes Christ to the world."
"Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell."
C.S Lewis
"God, in the end. gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?"
"It is not that our desires are too strong, nay, they are too weak, for we are far too easily pleased."
John Piper
"There was no redemptive plan for the fallen angels. There did not have to be one for us either. Tremble with thankfulness."
"Christ did not die to make much of us, but to free us to enjoy, and participate in, God's making much of God forever."
"Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today."
"Because self, no matter how glorious, can never satisfy a heart made for God."
"Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one."
"Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel."
"Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?"
"The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours."
"All the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy."
"Could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ was not there?"
"When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ."
"Remember, you have one life. That's all. You were made for God. Don't waste it."
"The ultimate goal of the gospel is seeing and savoring the beauty and value of God."
"It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God."
"Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion."
"My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes-many times-my feelings are out of sync with the truth."
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"Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered."
-R.C. Sproul, Jr.
"If Jesus comes to live inside your heart you will EXPLODE. With love. With compassion. With hurt for those who are hurting and joy for those who rejoice. You will explode with a desire to be more. To be better. To be close to the one who made you."
-Katie
"With faith that endures no matter what and God's Spirit in your heart, you will experience amazing things in this life...Dream mighty dreams, delight yourself in the Lord. He loves to make faith-filled dreams come true!"
-Joe White
"If you desire to be really happy, you must make God your final and ultimate goal."
-Thomas a Kempis
"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world."
-William Booth
-William Booth
"If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified. There is nothing noble the human mind has ever hoped for or dreamed of that will not be fulfilled. One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God."
-Oswald Chambers
"Prayer is first and foremost listening to Jesus, who dwells in the very depths of your heart."
-Henri Nouwen
"Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Delight me to see how your Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs and lovely in eyes not his to the Father through the features of men's faces. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number I do not ask to see the reason for it all; I ask only to share the wonder of it all."
-Joshua Abraham Heschel
"The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others."
-Tim Keller
"It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you."
-Tim Keller
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
-Harold Whitman
