The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.

Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.

Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.