Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

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.

A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

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

Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.