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

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by which I may try the heat of your heart, and I will tell you the amount of your success.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.