“The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.”

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed – but to be practiced.

When I die, now don’t think that I’m a nut, don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

May your cold nights die a warm death.