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

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.