We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

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.

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

If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.