While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.

Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.