Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

Sometimes the solution of a problem is just the perspective of thinking.

Hard times nurture the beauty of hope.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.