I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God'. I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.

The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.

It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.