There is the joy of one’s own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.
Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.
Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.
I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I’ve done business with him.
If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.
Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.
I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.
What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don’t let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.
We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.
God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He’s even put a ‘No Fishing’ sign over the spot.
My experience is that those who pray most in their closets generally make short prayers in public.
If I wanted to find out whether a man was a Christian, I wouldn’t go to his minister. I would go and ask his wife.
I think we shall find a great many of our prayers that we thought unanswered answered when we get to heaven.
Faith has no desire to have its own will, when that will is not in accordance with the mind of God; for such a desire would at bottom be the impulse of an unbelief which did not rely upon God’s judgment as our best guide. Faith knows that God’s will is the highest good, and that anything which is beneficial to us will be granted to our petitions.
Fiery trials make golden Christians; sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856.
Prayer was appointed to convey The blessings God designs to give; Long as they live should Christians pray, For only while they pray they live.
I once read these words on a tombstone: “Born, died, kept.” Let us pray God to keep us in perfect peace, and assured of salvation.