A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.

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.

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

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.