It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

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.

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.