“It does not take long to tell where a man’s treasure is. In fifteen minutes’ conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.”

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church…is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

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

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

So few grow, because so few study.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ’s funeral sermons, but I couldn’t find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn’t exist where He was.