Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.