Quotes from Kent Hughes

spiritual discipline frees us from the gravity of this present age and allows us to soar with the saints and angels.

Therefore, the way for the Christian to avoid spiritual collapse is to consider Christ and the opposition He faced from the likes of sinners like Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate. Consider how He faced them with confidence, meekness, and strength.

When a husband makes difficult decisions, he should do so with the full counsel of his wife.

Headship modeled on the headship of Christ demands a profound life of devotion and intercessory prayer.

remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4

When asked if he really believed that two men for whose salvation he had prayed for over fifty years would be converted, George Muller of Bristol replied, "Do you think God would have kept me praying all these years if He did not intend to save them?" Both men were converted, one shortly before, the other after Muller's death.

The mind controlled by lust has an infinite capacity for rationalization.

Men, if we are not praying in detail for our wives and children, we are sinning.

Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.

Our experience of rest is proportionate to our trusting in him.

The colossal slide of integrity (especially masculine ethics) has grim spiritual, domestic, and political implications which threaten the survival of life as we know it.

Greek mythology tells of a beautiful youth who loved no one until the day he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with that reflection. He was so lovesick, he finally wasted away and died, and was turned into a flower that bears his name — Narcissus.