The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!