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

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.

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.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like we're together, because we're scared of seeing each other with somebody else.

Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture.

Did your great-grandfather have any children?

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.