If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

Milk many cows but make your own butter.

Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.