God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.