Guidance & Wisdom
There is not room in your heart for two thrones.
It is folly for any man to attempt to fight in his own strength.
I am ashamed of Christianity in the nineteenth century when I think of those early Christians. Why, it would take all the Christians in the Northwest to make one Paul.
When the Spirit of God is on us the world looks very empty; the world has a very small hold upon us.
There is not a denomination in Christendom to-day that has not sprung out of a revival.
The hardest thing, I will admit, ever a man had to do is to become a Christian, and yet it is the easiest. This seems to many to be a paradox, but I will repeat it, it is the most difficult thing to become a Christian, and yet it is the easiest.
If it’s the work of the devil turn your back against it. I would if I thought it was. If it is the work of God, be careful what you do. My friends, it is a terrible thing to fight against God.
People see that we are carrying around empty buckets, and they will not come to us until they are filled.
I don’t know a worse man than he who tries to pull young Christians down.
A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing his time after all.
When a man gets so full that he can’t hold any more, then he is just ready for God’s service.
God can not use many of his servants, because they are full of irritability and impatience.
I believe that Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred, if only we do not worship God Himself.
Nothing can satisfy the longings of the soul but the Word of the living God.
The tree grows the way the twig is bent.
A man need not try to pull a man out of the river if he is in it himself.
The religion that has no fire is like painted fire.
If we can’t be a lighthouse, let us be a tallow candle.
Wealth to most men proves nothing more or less than a great rock upon which their eternity is wrecked.
I wouldn’t give a snap of my finger for a religion that doesn’t begin at home.