Category: Quote of the Day

Spiritually, there are only two races—the children of Adam and the regenerated children of God. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6). The supreme race issue is whether we belong to the once-born or the twice-born. There is not much excitement about this issue, but it is the only one that will matter in eternity.

The right side is the bright side ultimately but not always immediately. We are not called to be pulpit Pollyannas wearing rose-colored glasses and painting the clouds with sunshine. Paul’s contemporaries may have explained his dark picture of the last days by saying, “He is just a bilious old bachelor in a Roman jail, and everything looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.” Someone may have reminded him that one can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but Paul was not in the fly-catching business, anyway.