A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith.