Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.