Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.

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.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.