Being happy in God is the way we glorify Him. This is the reason we were created. Delighting in God is not a mere preference or option of life; it is our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives.

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.

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.