God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.