"Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today.False teachers use high-sounding wordsthat seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women."

"For the Christian, death can be faced realistically and with victory, because he knows “that neither death nor life . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God” [Romans 8:38–39 NKJV]."

"Go is the first part of the word Gospel.It should be the watchword of every true follower of Christ.It should be emblazoned on the banners of the church."

"When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God."

"Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash."

"The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die."

"Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator."

"Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again."

"[God the Spirit] will never lead you contrary to the Word of God. I hear people saying, “The Lord led me to do this . . .” I am always a little suspicious unless what the Lord has said is in keeping with His Word."

"Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful."

"Your future does not hinge on the world situation, however grim it might become. It depends on what happened 2,000 years ago at the cross and your acceptance or rejection of the Prince of Peace."

"How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?"

"We are living in an age of grace, in which God promises that “whosoever will” may come and receive His Son. But this period of grace will not go on indefinitely. We are even now living on borrowed time."

"Don't take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character."

"Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!"

"The Pilgrims had vision and hope because they lived in the dimension of eternity. Their strength of spirit was forged by a personal faith in God, by tough discipline, and by regular habits of devotion."

"It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers-he has an almost uncanny ability to perceivehypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness."

"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."

"We can trust the Bible because it points us to the most important events in human history: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ."

"Christianity is not an insurance policy against life's ills and troubles."

"Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can call up information about a topic that would have taken years to collect. Young people graduate with more knowledge than ever before-but in spite of their knowledge, they are confused, bewildered, frustrated, and without moral moorings."

"Do you know what nearly all the sociologists say today in their study of young people? The greatest problem facing young people today is not sex-it is boredom."

"We can take persecution because we know the purpose behind it. The purpose is to glorify God."

"To the Son of God prayer was more important than the assembling of great throngs . . . He often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed [Luke 5:15–16]."

"We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code."

"Ask God to help you see the world the way He sees it."

"Sometimes I think the truly committed Christian is in conflict with society around him more than any other person. Society is going one direction, and the Christian is going in the opposite direction. This brings about friction and conflict. But God has promised, in the midst of trouble and conflict, a genuine peace, a sense of assurance and security, that the worldly person never knows."

"There are so many professing Christians who are walking hand in hand with the world that you cannot tell the difference between the Christian and the unbeliever. This should never be."

"A godly person-one who serves Christ and exhibits purity and integrity in his life-is not necessarily welcomed or admired by those who live differently. They may even react in scorn, or refuse to include a christian in their social gatherings because his very presence is a rebuke to them."

"The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect."

"When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention."

"[Angels] crisscross the Old and New Testaments, being mentioned directly or indirectly nearly 300 times."

"Satan perverts everything good by mimicking and mocking the real thing."

"There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together."

"One kind of loneliness is the loneliness of solitude. If you have repented, surrendered, and committed your heart and life to Him, Christ forgives . . . and takes you into His family; He brings you to the hearth, and you feel the warmth of the fire. If you are lonely today, seek Christ and know the fellowship that He brings."

"One of life's mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths-one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens."

"The unpardonable sin involves the total and irrevocable rejection of Jesus Christ."

"God's love is unchangeable, He knows exactly what we are and loves us anyway."

"You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until you stand at the foot of the cross and identify yourself with Christ by faith . . . this is peace with God."

"Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful."

"If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life."

"Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged."

"Someday all of us will give account of the way we have used the gifts God has given. The person to whom much has been given will find much required of him."

"The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us to the place of cleansing: the cross of Christ."

"Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do."

"It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith . . . they go “a whoring.” It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint."

"Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do-but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you."

"The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Christ will reign in righteousness. Disease will be arrested. Death will be modified. War will be abolished. Nature will be changed. Man will live as it was originally intended he should live."

"Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense."

"God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless."