“The gospel is far greater than most of us imagine. It isn’t just good news for us—it’s good news for animals, plants, stars, and planets. It’s good news for the sky above and the earth below.”

“I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back—but God has a bigger shovel.” — R. G. LeTourneau”

“God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing.” —C. S. Lewis”

“There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them.” —C. S. Lewis”

“God could have created us without loving us, but He would not have gone to the Cross without loving us.”

“The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.” —J. C. Ryle”

“When our sin reached its full horror, God’s love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God’s love for you, look at the cross.”

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“God isn’t just preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for that place.”

“There is a difference between tears of hope and tears of hopelessness.” —Erwin Lutzer”

“The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. “Life and death is in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs 18:21).”

“Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live...like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, [these lone rangers] are vulnerable to predators of every sort.” —Nancy Leigh DeMoss”

“The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.” —John Stott”

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

“The earth matters, our bodies matter, animals and trees matter, matter matters, because God created them and intends them to manifest his glory.”

“1 Corinthians 15:58 as follows: “Let nothing move you as you busy yourselves in the Lord’s work. Be sure that nothing you do for him is ever lost or ever wasted.”

“Because God is the source of all good, and Hell is the absence of God, Hell must also be the absence of all good. Likewise, community, fellowship, and friendship are good, rooted in the triune God himself. But in the absence of God, Hell will have no community, no camaraderie, no friendship. I don’t believe Hell is a place where demons take delight in punishing people and where people commiserate over their fate. More likely, each person is in solitary confinement, just as the rich man is portrayed alone in Hell (Luke 16:22-23). Misery loves company, but there will be nothing to love in Hell. Earth is an in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.”

“All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.”

“Most people live unprepared for death. But those who are wise will go to a reliable source to investigate what’s on the other side. And if they discover that the choices they make during their brief stay in this world will matter in the world to come, they’ll want to adjust those choices accordingly.”

“If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames” (1 Corinthians 3:12-15).”