241 books on the shelf.

Hell is the truth seen too late.

The priests and false prophets peddled enough experience to make them happy but not enough truth to make them holy.

The penalty for rejecting truth is accepting lies.

Organizations, establishments, and entities have rules. Relationships don’t have rules.

The winning of individuals by individuals in personal conversation is the main way to win souls.

Every lost sinner is called to be saved. As soon as he is saved he is called to win souls.

It is often harder to make a soul winner out of a Christian than to make a Christian out of a sinner.

You can’t catch fish without fishing. You can’t win souls without soul winning.

Going is the main part of soul winning.

The economy of God never has a harvest problem. Always a labor problem.

The opportunity is large. The outreach is limited.

Short devotions are the bane of deep piety.

You may lose all of your use; you will never lose any of your value.

Shall man be proud, after God has been humble?

What seems impossible is achievable through good leadership.

When it comes to performance standards, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

Only by walking in dependence on the Spirit, that is, letting the Spirit have full control, can the Christian ever hope to make the progress that is consonant with his profession.

Most people have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

What people need is not a motto to say, but a model to see.

Too many people are ready to assert their rights, but not assume their responsibilities.

We cannot lead anyone else farther than we have been ourselves.

Faith is not just the beginning of the Christian life; it is the means by which we obtain everything we need from God.

Worship is not singing. Worship is obedience.

Any time you find somebody in need, if you can help them, you should.

The solution to abuse is not disuse, but proper use.

Obstacles are conditions to success.

Really, what counts is not what happens to me but what happens in me.

The tongue is a tattletale that tells on the heart and discloses the real person.

Power does not automatically yield purity.

Our lives should demonstrate whatever wisdom we claim to possess.

There is a great difference between how we feel and how we handle our feelings.

Survival, success, or significance?

Cherish your visions and dreams, as they are the children of your soul: the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

If you understand what motivates people, you have at your command the most powerful tool for dealing with them.

It is a difficult task to admonish Christians who are not living in the will of God and then face their resistance and criticism.

Faulty interpretations can lead to unrealistic expectations that can cause us to “change the rules” in order to function within our own reality.

God wants believers in various cultural settings to be able to create a multiple leadership plan that will function effectively regardless of whether we live in the first century or the twenty-first.

To delegate responsibilities to people who are not qualified spiritually will not “lighten the load” for spiritual leaders. Rather, it will only complicate their ministry.

God has for you blessings you have never claimed, power you have never used, an enduement you have never sought and found.

Para-church organizations, such as seminaries, mission agencies, Christian counseling agencies, and evangelistic ministries, have risen to accomplish so much of what God intended the Church to do.

We expect people to come to church in order to come to Christ, and the people of the world want nothing to do with church.

We should not be running from the drug dealers and darkness. If indeed we are really the light of the world, we should be running toward the darkness with the understanding that we cannot be overcome by darkness.

Our greatest significance is found in the darkness, not in the light.

If Jesus is missing in our understanding of church, He will likely be missing in our expression of church as well.

In many churches in the West, ministry is done for Jesus, but not by Jesus, and therein lies a big difference.

What we draw them with is what we draw them to. If they come expecting to be entertained, we had better entertain them if we want to keep them coming back every week.

It is my opinion that thousands would escape from slavery who now remain, but for the strong cords of affection that bind them to their friends.

God’s design for taking the gospel to the world is a slow, intentional, simple process that involves every one of his people sacrificing every facet of their lives to multiply the life of Christ in others.

Jesus never intended to be one voice among many counseling us on how to lead our lives and use our money. He always intends to be the voice that guides whatever decisions we make in our lives and with our money.

Honoring traditions made the Pharisees feel like they were obeying God when they actually weren’t.

If we focus too much of our attention on what people want, we will only increase the amount of complaining. The more we try to fulfill their desires, the more they complain when their desires are not met.

Too often, we give people what they ask for rather than what they need.

By catering our worship to the worshippers and not the Object of our worship, I fear we have created human-centered churches.

You can’t shape the life of your church around who might leave if things start to feel too much like the New Testament.

The Church’s purpose is not to exist. It’s to produce. Are we producing mature disciples who imitate Christ by constantly serving others?

In so many churches, the mission of the church has actually become the maintenance of the institution itself.

We might find that the things we added to improve our churches are the very things that crowd God out.

Going small is our best shot at getting big.

If we don’t change the direction we’re going, we are likely to end up where we’re headed.

The assumptions we make often restrict our thinking and therefore restrict our possibilities.

To love the whole world for me is no chore; my only real problem’s my neighbor next door.

To learn the will of God before undertaking anything, and to wait till it is clear, because only so can one either be blessed in his own soul or prospered in the work of his hands.

The impulse of a converted soul is to love, and not to be getting up and complaining of every one else and finding fault.

God is not a hard taskmaster, and in later years I have learned that to do your best work you cannot afford to neglect the common laws of health.

God will never act contrary to His nature.

If you are worn out or stressed by your “Christian duties,” perhaps you are not properly yoked to your Master.

God is far more interested in a love relationship with you than He is in what you do for Him. His desire is for you to love Him.

God will always work in you before He works through you.

God is not primarily calling you to a task but to a relationship.

The depth of revival will be determined always by the depth of the spirit of repentance.

An empty altar receives no fire.

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment, you create trust.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.

More battles are lost by loss of hope than loss of blood.

Great communication can meet multiple audiences where they are.

It’s easy to despise what you can’t get.

Prayer governs conduct and conduct makes character.

There are three classes of people: those who are afraid, those who don’t know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bible.

Never underestimate your capacity to be deceived.

When we do not experience the truths expressed in Scripture, it is our experience that is in question, not the Bible.

The test of doctrine is purity of conduct.

Let us not be deluded with the idea that the golden age is to be ushered in through the agencies of the present enterprises of men.

God does not need you to compromise your integrity to accomplish His work.

Our beleaguered age stands in need, not so much of ten-talented men as God-conquered commoners.

They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

It’s amazing how quickly the brush grows over the path.

Fasting prepares the way for God to give you fresh revelation, fresh vision, and clear purpose.

Wherever God’s people are and God’s purposes are being worked out, that is where the spiritual battle will be most intense.

When a scientist says something good about the Bible, it doesn’t make me trust the Bible more; it makes me trust the scientist more.

God seems attracted to our weakness, because weakness creates space for His power.

Prayer becomes desirable when our view of the Father becomes biblical.