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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.

When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.

Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.