What They Said

"You are commanded to rejoice, Brothers and Sisters, because this is for your profit. Holy joy will oil the wheels of your life's machinery. Holy joy will strengthen you for your daily labor. Holy joy will beautify you and, as I have already said, give you an influence over the lives of others."

"It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

“God is the Creator and the Sustainer of everything that is.”

“A true Christian must be no slave to fashion, if he would train his child for heaven.  He must not be content to do things merely because they are the custom of the world; to teach them and instruct them in certain ways, merely because it is usual; to allow them to read books of a questionable sort, merely because everybody else reads them; to let them form habits of a doubtful tendency, merely because they are the habits of the day.”

"THE natural man is a god to himself. Yes, he has his gods many. Whether it be self-righteousness, self-gratification, the world, wealth, family, in whatever form it appears, "other lords have dominion over him," to the exclusion of the one true and living God. The nature of the human mind is such, that it must love and worship some object supremely."

"There are many more flies caught with honey than with vinegar and there are many more sinners brought to Christ by joyful Christians than by doleful Christians!"

"When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.”

“Hold on to the faithfulness of God. Believe when you do not understand, that he knows all about you, that he is committed to taking care of you. He has promised it.”

“Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.”

"The Christian's faith includes not merely what we are to believe, but also what we are to practice."

"The preaching of holy lives is living preaching. The most effective ministry from a pulpit is that which is supported by godliness from the pew."

"We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong."

“The gospel is the announcement, the proclamation, of the greatest and the most astonishing good news that has ever come into this world of time.”

“True Christians are to be in the world like SALT. Now salt has a peculiar taste of its own, utterly unlike anything else. When mingled with other substances, it preserves them from corruption. It imparts a portion of its taste to everything it is mixed with. It is useful so long as it preserves its savor, but no longer.”

"The spiritual life which God has breathed into our souls will never rest until it reaches its full and perfect development."

"It is well to preach as I do, with my lips; but you can all preach with your feet, and by your lives, and that is the most effective preaching."

"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice."

“It is of no use pretending before God.”

“The sympathy of Jesus is a truth which ought to be peculiarly dear to all believers. They will find in it a mine of strong consolation.”

"When the Spirit of God moved upon the face of unformed nature, and a new world sprang into life, light, and beauty, He pronounced it very good. But what must be His estimate of that new creation which His Spirit has wrought in the soul, whose moral chaos He has reduced to life, light, and order!"

"THERE is a marvelous medicinal power in joy. Most medicines are distasteful, but this, which is the best of all medicines, is sweet to the taste and comforting to the heart."