Category: Quote of the Day

What president ever said in his speeches that our real trouble is sin? All other ailments are suggested, and countless remedies are proposed, but what national leader ever names the basic malady? We try to mop the floor while we leave the faucet running. Anybody with his eyes half open and a Bible in hand ought to be able to diagnose our disease. This is not the exclusive prerogative of theologians. All other trouble is due to heart trouble. We are sinners and something must be done about sin. Something has been done by God in Christ but men will not accept the diagnosis and take the treatment. We must do something about the sin and the Saviour, for the two supreme issues are the sin question and the Son questions.

There is virtue in narrowness. A river spread over a marsh may be lovely to look at, and Sidney Lanier my write exquisite poetry about it, but if that river is to generate power it must be narrowed into a dam. We have spread out all over the place in our church life. We have sacrificed depth for width, and instead of a power dam, we have too often a stagnant swamp.