Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

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

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.