The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?

The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its culture, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

We must never edit God.