Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with as many people as someone else who has special gifts from God.

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.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.