What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.

We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.