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

The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.