Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

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.

We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.

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

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

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