Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

What you think now about the cross of Christ, I cannot tell; but I can wish you nothing better than this - that you may be able to say with the apostle Paul, before you die or meet the Lord, 'God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.'

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.