We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

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.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.