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.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.