We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

And in my own pastoral and personal Christian experience, I can say that I've never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

We are not New Testament Christians if we don't have a prayer life.

Getting up early in the morning to fix my eyes on Jesus through prayer and reading His Word is like setting

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

true love is always backed up with actions.

I love what Jesus said in Luke 19:29-30: "Everyone who has given up house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, will be repaid many times over in this life" (NLT). Notice it doesn't say when you get to heaven God will bless you. It says, right here on the earth, if you give up anything for God's sake, He will reward you more than you can even imagine.