You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.

A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

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 a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.