We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

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.

The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.