The curse of the church is not so much sins of commission as sins of
omission.
Two things I try to do—strengthen the faith and clarify the vision of
those that believe; help bring the unsaved to Christ.
Nobody begins to live until they become a Christian. You’re not ready to
die unless you’re ready to live.
You can learn something from some politicians—energy and organization.
It won’t be long until the entire State of Iowa is cleared of the liquor
traffic. Only twenty counties remain wet and these are going dry with a
rapidity almost dazzling.
It’s hard for you to teach the baby how to walk; it’s harder for the baby
to learn how to walk.
I never saw a revival movement yet until God’s people fell on their knees
and renewed their vows of Christianity.
Personal work is a difficult form of work; more difficult than preachings,
singing, attending conventions.
Some things must be faultless to be valuable.
Love is the greatest thing in the world; character the grandest.
You can bury a man, but his character will beat the hearse back from the
graveyard.
Don’t your hearts say, you must forsake sin before you can expect pardon?
I will preach with all the power I have against sin, but I will never
“bawl” a man out.
God is doing His best to keep men out of hell; men are doing their best to
get into hell.
God cannot and will not put the good and bad in the same place.
What did Jesus ever do that was not for the good of humanity?
Jesus Christ never preached a funeral sermon; that was out of his line.
If you are in favor of something Jesus is against, then he does not want
you.
Jesus Christ is against all wrong. Are you?
Jesus stands for a square deal all around.
Are you against the saloon? Jesus Christ is.
Jesus Christ was the bravest man who ever lived. I am tired of hearing him
referred to as a dough-faced person.
Something is expected of a Godless person that is not of a sinner.
I do not care a rap for your claps or applause unless your acts take the
form of living your Christianity.
Without faith there would not be a factory or a bank here.
Nothing was ever accomplished without men first believing something.
The man who is a Christian has life more abundantly than an infidel.
Christ turned houses of mourning into houses of joy.
You act as though you had reached the apex and written “finis” after
everything you do. We haven’t learned the a b c’s of what is yet to come
in this old world.
There’s a law of gravitation in character as well as in matter.
A saloonkeeper does not enjoy a prayer meeting.
With everything wicked men can do today they try to check religion. Yet
religion never will be stopped. You might as well try to dam Niagara Falls
with toothpicks.
For twenty-seven and a half years I have been a Christian. I defy the
devil or anyone else on earth or in hell to prove that I don’t live what I
preach.
A motorman might as well try to run his car up yonder hill by blowing his
breath against the front vestibule as to expect salvation without Jesus
Christ.
You can’t stop religion by making fun of it.
If it’s wrong for me to hit the booze, it’s wrong for you.
God says, if you give me a chance, old man, I can make you sober and keep
you sober.
Take out of this town what Christianity has done for it and its real
estate would not be worth ten cents by Christmas.
Do not be deluded to believing that all you need is sincerity of thought.
A man may believe he can handle nitro-glycerine with impunity, but if he
does he will be slivered into atoms.