The chuurch that does not speak of the sins of the last generation is in no position to speak against the sins of this generation. Death in the City (Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press: 1969) 40

It is no fault of Christianity if a hypocrite falls into sin.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I seldom see ministers strive so furiously, who shall go first to a poor man's cottage to teach him and his family the way to heaven; or who shall first endeavor the conversion of a sinner, or first become the servant of all.

So remember, you who profess to be followers of the Lord Jesus, that to you indifference is impossible! You must bless the church and the world by your holiness, or you will curse them both by your hypocrisy and inconsistency. In the visible church it is most true that "no man liveth unto himself, and no man dieth unto himself."

Public salvations will give no impunity, no security, to private sinners: still every man that eats the sour grapes shall have his teeth set on edge.

Christianity is not just a mental assent that certain doctrines are true -- not even that the right doctrines are true. This is only the beginning. This would be rather like a starving man sitting in front of great heaps of food and saying, "I believe the food exists; I believe it is real," and yet never eating it. It is not enough merely to say, "I am a Christian," and then in practice to live as if present contact with the supernatural were something far off and strange. Many Christians I know seem to act as though they come in contact with the supernatural just twice -- once when they are justified and become a Christian and once when they die. The rest of the time they act as though they were sitting in the materialist's chair. Death in the City (Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press: 1969) 134

Sound protestant and evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless: it does positive harm. It is despised by keen sighted and shrewd men of the world, as an unreal and hollow thing, and brings religion into contempt.

Don't stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites. There's always room for one more.

A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

It were better for him to break his neck going up into the pulpit, if he does not take pains to be the first to follow God.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

I declare I know of no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself.

The same fire which melts the wax hardens the clay; the same sun which makes the living tree grow, dries up the dead tree, and prepares it for burning. Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things... it is not privileges alone which make people Christians, but the Grace of the Holy Ghost.