Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

In 40 years I have not spent 15 minutes without thinking of Jesus.

The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.