If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshiping an idealized version of yourself. -Tim Keller

"…If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had.” -CS Lewis

It’s the poor in spirit that desire to pray.  

“The persistent widow and the friend at midnight get access, not because they are strong but because they are desperate. Learned desperation is at the heart of a praying life.” -Paul Miller 

The 5 most important words in the book of Acts. And when they had prayed (Acts 4:31) 

-Dick Eastman

“We were made not primarily that we may love God…but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the Divine love may rest “well pleased.” To ask that God’s love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God.” -CS Lewis

If our interior lives aren’t built and cultivated, our exterior circumstances will crush us. -Corey Russell

“I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.” -William Burns

"If I look at the world, I will conform to ways of the world. If I look at the Word, I will conform to the will of God" AW Tozer

To be a fellow-soldier with Paul often meant to be a fellow-prisoner with him. There's a lesson here for all of us who want to stand for what is right. There is a cost. -Dr. Michael Brown

He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.” ⠀ ― Amy Carmichael⠀ 

"I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked." —Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Christ is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.” Hebrews 1:3. Among your family, your friends, your colleagues, this world, you cannot make too much of Christ.  -John Piper

I'm all for praying that God will shake everything that can be shaken, revealing corruption and sin and hypocrisy. But I do so with fear and trembling. Are you sure your house will stand? Let us judge ourselves carefully before Him so we are not judged with the world. (1 Corinthians 11:31-32) -Dr. Micheal Brown

"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed." —Hudson Taylor

"Resurrection not only raised up Christ, it also vindicated God as a good Father." —Bob Sorge

This is astonishing! And incredibly important—that in the last day when we are completely changed and conformed to Christ it will be by a *sight* of him. “We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 3:2. Think of the implications for preaching and counseling!  -John Piper

You never arrive at mercy by bending on righteousness and truth. -Bob Sorge

John Piper: “Every millisecond of your misery in the path of obedience is producing a peculiar glory you will get because of that suffering.” 

Want to be prophetic? Soak yourself in the Scriptures. The prophets did not bring a "new" message: https://buff.ly/2AXnKk5  -Samuel Whitefield 

"If you've read the Bible and have not encountered the Living Christ, you have not really read the Bible" AW Tozer 

"God is a God of missions. He wills missions. He commands missions. He demands missions. He made missions possible through His Son. He made missions actual in sending the Holy Spirit." – George W. Peters⠀

“While bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.” 1 Timothy 4:8. Words you will not here at the Judgment Day: Nice tan. Nice abs.  -John Piper