If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness that we find in the New Testament.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church’s job is to listen and then to echo.

We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.