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Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous. 
God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him "Savior" when we refuse to follow him as Lord. 
God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us. - Sinclair Ferguson 
Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept. 
The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children. 
Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy. 
In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child. 
If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn't matter what else we get right. 
Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living. 
When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive. 
As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent. 
Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged. 
He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity 
But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation. 
When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word. 
Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give. 
I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment. 
The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ. 
I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six. 
When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God. 
The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin." - Oswald Chambers 
You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose. 
To be truly happy - a man must have sources of gladness which are not dependent on anything in this world. - J. C. Ryle 
Never forget Yesu is King. Never forget your home is in another world. Never forget your father will be waiting to see you again. 
No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes. 
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance. 
There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke ... and knowing it. 
When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it's like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful. 
I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back - but God has a bigger shovel. - R. G. LeTourneau 
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17). 
Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories. 
God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity. 
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace. 
We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong. 
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism. 
Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless. 
When our sin reached its full horror, God's love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God's love for you, look at the cross. 
God isn't just preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for that place. 
God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won't let you outgive Him. 
The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him. 
How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word? 
A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners. 
You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place. 
Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace. 
Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us. 
What we do with a little time, a little talent, and a little money tells God a lot. 
We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages. 
Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us. 
Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified? 
To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God. 
By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God. 
It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses. 
Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti. 
Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality. 
We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth. 
Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face! 
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell. - J. C. Ryle 
Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent. 
Something nonhuman doesn't become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning. 
Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards. 