The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.