Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

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.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

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.

If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.