If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.