We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.