Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.