If your joy matches my joy as we continue in our Christian lives, you will be blessed indeed.

Watching the zeal of bungee-jumpers, I found myself wishing I saw more such zeal among Christian people. Now and then it appears, but most of us choose to be conventional, play safe, and plod. That, however, is hardly the spirit of New Testament Christianity—is it?

Life's pulse-quickening pleasures remind us that heaven's delights are for real and are our proper goal.

To scoop out time for activities that are for you re-creative pleasures is a proper and needful use of Christian liberty; without it, however far you go in Christian expertise and expression, you shrink as a person.

We were not made, nor are we redeemed, to live without leisure. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, even if he is a sound evangelical.

Patience treats each situation as a new opportunity to honor God in a way that would otherwise not be possible, and acts accordingly. Patience breasts each wave of pressure as it rolls in, rejoicing to prove that God can keep one from losing his or her footing.

The Puritans had an unflinching, matter-of-fact realism with which they prepared themselves for death, so as always to be found, as it were, packed up and ready to go.

To get the love of Christ in focus changes one’s whole existence.

Theologians are the church's plumbers and sewage men, securing a flow of pure truth and eliminating theological effluent.

Holiness is essentially a happy business.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. The Puritans exemplified maturity; we don’t.

Real enjoyment is integral to real godliness.

Psalms teach us how to worship; Proverbs, how to behave; Job, how to suffer, Song of Solomon, how to love; Ecclesiastes; how to live.

The end of walking Godward is that fellowship with God becomes a real and rich reality, more and more, as one lives the life of repentance.

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One way of judging the quality of theologies is to see what sort of devotion they produce.

Readiness to die is the first step in learning to live.

If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity find out how much he makes of having God as his Father.

Pleasure is designed to raise our sense of God's goodness, deepen our gratitude to him, and strengthen our hope of richer pleasures to come.