A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.