“In 1966 John Lennon commented to the American press that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. He may have been right. There is a difference between being preeminent and being popular.”
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
“A pastor really needs to be broken before God every day, or he will break up the church of God with his willfulness or let it slip into spiritual death through his sloth.”
― The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller
― The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller
“God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ become the deepest hunger of the inner life.”
― The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller
― The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller
“Personally, on a big-picture level, I know and delight in the preeminence of Jesus and have yielded my life to that reality. But on a granular level, I still find myself competing with Jesus for glory. I do things Jesus desires with motivations Jesus despises.”
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
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