The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.