The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.

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.

The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

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

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

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