The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

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

I believe the place of prayer is not only a place where I lose my burdens, but also a place where I get a burden. He shares my burden and I share His burden. ... To know that burden, we must hear the voice of the Spirit. To hear that voice, we must be still and know that He is God.

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