It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.

When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.