We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.