If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.