We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.

Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.