Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.

He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.

When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.

In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.

Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly.