When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.
Personal liberty is not personal license.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.
Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.
You can’t measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.
You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you.
Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.
When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
I pity anyone who can’t laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can’t laugh.
The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.
Jesus Christ was God’s revenue officer.
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.