Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.

Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.

I love you, " I whisper. "I love you exactly as you are.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.

I scrutinized his face for honesty and then looked away. He was either a lunatic, a really good liar, or he was actually telling the truth.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

A man without a home can't be lost.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.