“A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!”
“Christianity means a lot more than church membership.”
“Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.”
“Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.”
“Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.”
“I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.”
“If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.”
“If you don't do your part, don't blame God.”
“Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.”
“More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.”
“Personal liberty is not personal license.”
“Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.”
“Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.”
“The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.”
“The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.”
“The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.”
“The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.”
“The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.”
“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”
“They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.”
“What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?”
“When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.”
“When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.”
“When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.”
“Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.”
“You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.”