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.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.