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If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.
If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.
Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.
I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!
I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!
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.
The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.
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.
There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.
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.