If I ever accepted the pastorate of a church I’d buy a round trip ticket.
But believe me, I’d skin the bunch while I was on the job.
Too many people desert the prayer meeting for a card party or a Dutch
lunch.
Paul was an evangelist. Wherever he preached they had to call out the cops
to protect him. He always had a riot or a revival.
We need a revival because the churches are critical, cold, blown in the
bottle, stamped on the cork—petrified. You can’t scald a hog in ice-water.
The world would sink into hell before the Fourth of July if it had to
depend on “ethical” revivals.
If you want to see this city as God wants it to be you’ll help. If you
want it to be as hell and the devil wants it, then knock.
There are two gangs in every church—the rubs and the anti-rubs.
Some people have sat in their pews so long that they are mildewed.
There are multitudes in heaven that have crept and crawled out of the
quagmire of filth and the cesspools of iniquity and drunkenness.
It takes the combined efforts of the Trinity to keep you out of hell.
I’ll do anything on earth to help a sinner. I’ll do anything in the world
to put the devil and all his cohorts in hell.
Conversion must be effected by the influence of the truth on the mind.
Truth resisted, loses its power on the mind that resists and each
resistance weakens the truth.
When God begins to show His power, then the devil and all of the demons
get busy.
Religion makes its appeal to your sensibility, not your intellect.
The way into the kingdom is heart first, not head first.
God is not an explanation; God is a revelation.
Most people are converted at revival services.
If you are thirty and have not been converted, the chances are that if you
are not converted now, you will never be converted.
If it weren’t for revivals, just think what hell would be like.
If you spurn Jesus Christ you are doing the same thing which the Pharisees
did.
Some say a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
Trouble with some fellows is that they have their religion and property in
their wives’ names. You’ve got to be something more than a brother-in-law
to God.
If God had his way there’d be no saloons.
The history of the church is a history of revivals; when any preacher
talks against revivals, he’s a damn scoundrel.
What the Church of God needs today is a baptism of horse sense.
Some people never read the Bible from week-end to week-end. No wonder they
are dried up like an Egyptian mummy.
Religion doesn’t affect some poor old sinners any more than shooting peas
at the Rock of Gibraltar with a pop gun.
If I can win a man over to Christianity—to keep a drunkard sober, even
just for a year, it’s worth every dollar.
Some of the worst knockers I have in this county are the preachers—sour
grapes; that’s the only way I can see it.
You’ve been so dignified, stiff and worldly until you’ve grieved the
Spirit of God.
Give the Lord a main line and see what he’ll do these days.
Never saw God bless a stingy gang yet.
I feel like a shouting Methodist. When you get a Presbyterian shouting
there’s something doing.
I am pleading for the old-fashioned Pentacostal revival. My evangelism is
2,000 years old; as old as the nails in the cross.
If a city sags morally, the reason is not with God, but with her
citizenship. They’d rather have a dirty, rotten town.
The biggest coward in America today, the biggest coward we have in the
profession of Christian religion, who is afraid to come out and declare
himself in a campaign like this is the business man. He is afraid of some
saloon keeper, some brewer, some gambler and others of that kind—they’re
afraid they will lose their trade by it, and by the eternal God they ought
to be punished before the moon changes.
I believe you are getting ready to place this town on the map as a place
where the name of God and decency are revered.
Over your head, the devil and the angels of God are locked in a struggle
for your soul.
When you work for Jesus you must expect to be abused.
Heaven wants to save you, earth to cheat you and hell to damn you.
You are just as good as you want to be and not a whit better.
You haven’t got money enough in your bank vault to hire me to come here if
I didn’t care for the welfare of your souls.
If man wrote the Bible we’d never been told that Noah got drunk. Man would
have left such things out, but God didn’t. He put everything in whether
pleasant or unpleasant.
When you swell up like a poisoned pup and think you are complimenting God
by being present here tonight, then God’s got nothing for you.
Some of the biggest heathens this side of hell are right here tonight.
“No trade” is the passport by which 90 per cent of the men are entering
the prisons and penitentiaries.
You may be lower down in the sight of God than the one whom you condemn.
The devil believes in God and in hell. He’s more orthodox than some
preachers I know who preach that there is no hell.
How can you pray when you look at the throne of God through the bottom of
a beer glass.
Some people pray as though they never expected anything and they’re not
disappointed.
How can you pray and say “Thy will be done,” when you have the booze wagon
drive up to your back gate twice every week.