One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.