The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.