Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.

Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.