The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.
I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel.
The tendency of the world is down – God’s path is up.
I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.
If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.
Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.
Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
The last business of Christ’s life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.
The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.
Spread out your petition before God, and then say, “Thy will, not mine, be done.” The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.
Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!
By the grace of God, I’ll be that man.