If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.

Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God and said, 'O Lord, this is what you may expect of me if You leave me to myself.' He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God, and gave himself no further concerns about the matter.

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

You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.