“Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don’t want to be heavenly-minded while they live.”

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.

God doesn’t expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

This lost world will never be reached and brought back to loyalty to God, until the children of God wake up to the fact that they have a mission in the world. If we are true Christians we should all be missionaries.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, “Thy will, not mine, be done.” The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.

I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.

If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.