“Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.”

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

If you release me today, I’ll preach tomorrow.

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

It’s my body and if I want to do it like Michael Jackson, I will. My nose bothered me for a long time. Now it’s smaller and I’m happy. If I wanna put my tits on my back, they’re mine!

Unless you’re willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

Don’t you dare take what I’m giving away more than willingly, for granted.

To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don’t know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.