"Now, if you love what He made, what must He be who made it? If the world is beautiful, what must be the Author of the world?" (un...

"For, when the dawn brings forth the breaking day, do we not see the smallest birds in the tiny bedchambers of their nests first procee...

"More and more and more, America is a nation given over to play. The industries of play are huge! Houses are built today with entertain...

"On the one hand, we know, men are often so dull that when they hear that grace is offered them through Christ and that they may enjoy ...

"The love of God and the love of the world are like the scales of a balance: as one falls the other rises. When our natural inclination...

"But if God is the object of our love, we should share in his infinite happiness without contamination or the possibility of it being d...

"I know that some of you are not the least interested in these [religious] things. You have no emotional resonance with what I am sayin...

"Our heart when it rises to Him is His altar; the priest who intercedes for us is His Only-begotten; we sacrifice to Him bleeding victi...

"Suffering is appointed for us in this life as a great mercy to keep us from loving this world more than we should and to make us rely ...

"Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirit...

To demand the continual experience of the pleasure is to cut ourselves off from the subsequent pleasure that God intended. This principle - ...

"Therefore, every good gift in this world and the next (including innumerable wonders to enjoy in nature) was purchased by Christ for u...

"Jesus himself — and all that God is for us in him — is our great reward, nothing less. 'I am the bread of life....If anyone thirst...

"A Christian is a person who, by the sovereign grace of God, has found this treasure hidden in the field, and with life-controlling joy...

"We have a happy God. And one thing that makes him happy is doing good to his people with all his heart and with all his soul. This is ...

Gavin Ortlund recently posted a good video about a principle in Romans 12:15 and some comments made by Richard Wurmbrand on the subject . Wh...

"Every time we walk in a garden I think we ought to recollect the garden [of Gethsemane] where the Saviour walked, and the sorrows that...

"But who can conceive, not to say describe, what degrees of honor and glory shall be awarded [in heaven] to the various degrees of meri...

A striking feature of life in a fallen world is how some of the same kinds of experiences range along a continuum of extremes. Some marriag...

"Our childhood [in Christ] again brings the freshness of morning, and we live in perpetual springtime, always young, always mild, alway...