My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

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

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

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