Occupation: Minister Birth: December 20, 1899 Death: March 1, 1981
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines..
We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike co….
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?.
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart..
We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and t….
Faith is the refusal to panic..
Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alo….
To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Chris….
The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she wi….
The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? ... Is their life centered on Him? Do th….
I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, ….
Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of autho….
Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance..
Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God..
You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "….
The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the m….
What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence..
It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and hel….
Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it..
The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin..
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it..