God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.