I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

You already have wings, you just have to trust that you can fly.

Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be.

Darkness within clouds the world without.

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

You work for whatever you get in life.

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.