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.'

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.