But look at Jesus. He was perfect, right? And yet he goes around crying all the time. He is always weeping, a man of sorrows. Do you know why? Because he is perfect. Because when you are not all absorbed in yourself, you can feel the sadness of the world.

God always works through the men nobody wanted, and through the women nobody wanted.

Pride makes empathy nearly impossible. Pride keeps us from really noticing people, from putting ourselves in their shoes, from recognizing when they are hurting and unhappy. It keeps us absorbed with our own agenda and needs.

If the most powerful person, the power behind the universe loves you with all his heart, soul, strength, and mind, and you can see that on the cross, why are you afraid?

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

You can love without agreeing with someone. You can disagree without hating them.

If I ask people- "Are you a Christian?" and they say, "I don't know but I and trying hard to be one" - I know that they don't really understand Christianity at all. (from D.M. Lloyd-Jones)

Nothing more important for a Christian to do than to read right through the whole Bible over and over and over, at the very least once a year. You have to keep checking and refining your beliefs by immersion in the Scripture.

Don't let success go to your head, nor let failure go to your heart.

“We don’t know what the reason God allows suffering *is*. But we do know the what the reason God allows suffering *isn’t*. It *isn’t* because He doesn’t love or care us. He proved that through Jesus’ suffering and death on the cross.