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.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

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

This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.