Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

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.

If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord's Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament.