If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.