Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
I can't make you love me, but you can't keep me from loving you.
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.
To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.
The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.
A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.
Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.
It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.