To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
I declare I know 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.
God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.
A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.
Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.
The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.
If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.
The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.
If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.
Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
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