Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.