Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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