Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple.

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

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.

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?

I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say: "There - now God will feel better!" I am obliged to tell you that God does not need anything you have. He does not need a dime of your money. It is your own spiritual welfare at stake in such matters as these. You have the right to keep what you have all to yourself - but it will rust and decay, and ultimately ruin you.