When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great powerful feelings and emotions which cannot be resisted. He does not possess men as evil spirits take possession of their victims.

A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God.

the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.

Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.9 God did not create you for this.

Which means, therefore, that our Bible reading is never just for seeing, never just for learning and doctrine. It is not even just for savoring, if that savoring is thought of in a private way that leaves us unchanged in our relationship with others. No. We read the Bible—we always read the Bible—for the kind of seeing and savoring Christ that transforms us into his likeness.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for his ends

God does not intend to replace us when we are united to Christ; he intends to renew us and empower us and guide us.