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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.
Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.