The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.