We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
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.
Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
He who waits on God loses no time.
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.
Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
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