Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
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.
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.
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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!
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
