Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

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.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.