“A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.”

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament.

What you are alone is what you are.

It doesn’t matter if you please the whole world and don’t please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn’t matter whom you displease.

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.

I’ll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn’t that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard.

“But the word of the Lord endures forever”

Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands.

Be warned! From Satan’s viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I’ve come to the bottom of the Word of God.

Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

If Satan can’t make you bad, he’ll make you busy.

That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

The only thing God is building in this world is his church.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.