I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.