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

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him.

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

Prayer releases the grip of Satan’s power; prayerlessness increases it.

The Christian life doesn’t get easier as one gets older.

Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.

There’s some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do.

First of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far.

Have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds.

Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it.

How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in my life and cast off His law.

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult.

It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly.

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.