If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.