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.

One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.

The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.