To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.