If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

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.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul