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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.