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.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

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

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

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.

Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.