The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails