Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.
Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith’s stamp on real silver and gold – it is one of the marks of a converted man.
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.
If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.
We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.
We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.
Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.