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

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.

For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.