We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.