Everything is wrong until Jesus sets it right.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.