Quotable

Make time each day just to worship the Lord, for I believe that the highest goal for every believer is not evangelism, but worship. See that it becomes your number one priority. You will find that evangelism and every other Christian activity is easier in consequence. Give worship first place, above intercessory prayer, and simply enjoy God because He is God. Worship, Tozer comments, is the missing jewel of the evangelical church. If it is lacking in your life you are probably experiencing a power shortage.

Our motivation as we march into battle is love...unless we have love, our Christian lives are not only dull and painful, but noisy and worthless....Yet within ourselves we cannot generate the love we need, for very few of us brim over with charity. This is not a cause for guilt, however, though it may be a sign that we need to repent of the hard feelings we have harbored against [any]. We need rather to turn to Christ and ask him to fill us with his love.

—George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilization, No Turning Back, p. 89.