We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

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

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

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.