If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

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.

Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.

One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.