One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

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.

Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.