(You can also download some of his sermons here - the few I've tried so far have been heart-warming and well worth the listen. If you've never heard of him, you can read his biography here.)
If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't.
You can't tell it like it is, if you don't believe it like it was.
One should enter the pulpit as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it might be the last time!
Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
The devil is not fighting religion. He is too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
The preacher is to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter. It is possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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.
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Somebody asked a prominent figure of the day, “What do you think of civilization?” He replied, “I think it’s a good idea. Why doesn’t someone start it?”
No comments:
Post a Comment