We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.
Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.
If you don’t enter the kingdom of heaven by God’s way, you cannot enter at all.
A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.
Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies – not only outside, but also inside – just as in the days of Nehemiah.
Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.
Lust is the devil’s counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.
There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty.
I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world – it would be as dust in the balance.
There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.
If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.
Wouldn’t it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can’t enjoy them then.
We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.
God doesn’t expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!
Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred – the Bible, the crucifix, the church – if only we do not worship God Himself.
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.
The reward of service is more service.
If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.