-- There is not an excuse but is a lie.
-- God's service a hard one! How will that sound in the judgment?
-- It is easy enough to excuse yourself to hell, but you cannot excuse
yourself to heaven.
-- When a man prepares a feast, men rush in, but when God prepares one
they all begin to make excuses, and don't want to go.
-- My friends, to accept this invitation is more important than anything
else in this world. There is nothing in the world that is so
important as the question of accepting the invitation.
-- If everybody could understand everything the Bible said it wouldn't
be God's book; if Christians, if theologians, had studied it for
forty, fifty, sixty years, and then only began to understand it, how
could a man expect to understand it by one reading?
-- If God were to take men at their word about these excuses, and swept
everyone into his grave who had an excuse, there would be a very
small congregation in the Tabernacle next Sunday; there would be
little business in Chicago, and in a few weeks the grass would be
growing on these busy streets.