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.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

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 true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.