I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne

But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.