It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man.

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 labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.