Brian Pate’s Reviews > Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry > Status Update

"A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.... We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table" (Chesterton, qtd. on p. 194).

People are motivated to repent "by an awakened taste for pleasure in God" and so we must preach in a way that "portrays God as supremely and everlastingly satisfying" (p. 139).

"The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was to have my soul happy in the Lord" (Goerge Mueller, p. 109).

"If the Bible is coherent, then understanding the Bible means grasping how things fit together" (p. 92).

Discipline yourself with "unhurried reading and reflection" (p. 79). "Your people will know if you are walking with the giants...or watching television" (p. 82).

"The more heavily engaged one is in battling the powers of darkness, the greater will be one's sense of need to spend time in prayer" (p. 77).

"The problem is not that [we] want to be satisfied but that [we] are far too easily satisfied" (p. 66).