What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.
Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.