The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!