The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.