When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

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.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

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