When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.

You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.