It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

I remember, when I have preached at different times in the country, and sometimes here, that my whole soul has agonized over men, every nerve of my body has been strained and I could have wept my very being out of my eyes and carried my whole frame away in a flood of tears, if I could but win souls

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.

So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word.