Only a disciple can make a disciple.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.