Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.

No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.