Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.
Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.
Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.
Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.
God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.
Don't coast through life without a passion.
Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.
The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
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.
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.
The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.
Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.
Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.
The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.
Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.
The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: