“That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church.”

When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.

A throne is God’s purpose for you; a cross is God’s path for you; faith is God’s plan for you.

Prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

Look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him,

God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit.

If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.

He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding.

The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul.

We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees.

Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong.

That He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.

No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.

At that moment He’ll flood your Life with His presence and power.

It is an absolute declaration of the fact that within my heart I have abandoned worship at the Cross.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.

I’m not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don’t go to church like I should.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.