No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.
I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.
Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.
The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.
We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.
What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.
Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.
Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.
Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.
It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.
To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark - that is faith.
When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.
Christian, beware of thinking lightly of sin. Take heed in case you fall little by little.
When men talk of a little hell it’s because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.