One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

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

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.

Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.