All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

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.

No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax.

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.