We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

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.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

A pin has a head, but has no hair

Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Business is a matter of human service.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.