Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn’t come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. … We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ….. …We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.
R. C. Sproul
Intense
The chief danger of
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
A. B. Simpson