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.

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.