The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.