Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.
You cannot warm the hearts of people with God’s love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.
Some men’s passion is for gold. Some men’s passion is for art. Some men’s passion is for fame. My passion is for souls.
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I’d learn how!
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.
Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.
Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again – until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.
If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
Don’t instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don’t be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.
A man’s labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.