If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

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

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

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.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.