Bryan Nass

“All sin comes from not putting supreme value on the glory of God—this is the very essence of sin.”
― John Piper, Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don’t seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.”
― John Piper, Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“We were designed to be social beings, to live in vertical community with God and horizontal community with others.”
― Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional

“True virtue never looks so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellence of real Christianity is never demonstrated as clearly as when it faces trials.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections: True Faith Shows Itself in the Fruit of the Spirit and Christlike Living