I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

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.

Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.

The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.