The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.

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

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.