I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

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.

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.