I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.