True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.