Occupation: Evangelist Birth: December 9, 1863 Death: May 16, 1945
The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man..
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate vic….
The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion..
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our….
There is something infinitely better than doing a great thing for God, and the infinitely better thing is to be where God wants us to be, to do w….
The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proporti….
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, read….
The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostra….
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in w….
God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all ….
When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization an….
Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation..
Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than we….
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see..
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward.
The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world..
What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties..
The world hates Christian people if they can see God in them..
Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray..
The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man..
The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise..