Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

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.

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.

Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.