“True humility begins in seeing ourselves as the mere creatures we are, made by and utterly dependent upon our eternal and almighty Creator. He is very, very big; and we, by comparison, are very, very small.”

‘The struggle to feel like we matter, to feel like we belong, that we are a somebody and not a nobody is one we can experience at any age. It affects us all, from time to time.”

The central concern of our lives needs to be our turning back to God, our repenting of our sin before God, our being redeemed from our sin by God – before it is too late. “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

“To “stay dressed for action” is to remember that our lives are meant for more than whatever it is we are doing and experiencing right now and today and tomorrow – and that our lives right now and today and tomorrow and forevermore have God as their ultimate destiny.”

“Jesus doesn’t just hear this man’s words, He reads this man’s heart.”