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.'

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

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.

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.'

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.