There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

Suffering saints are living seed.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.