There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.