All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.