God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

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.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.