If there are degrees in death, then the deadest I know of is to preach about the Holy Ghost without the anointing of the Holy Ghost.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

There is one thing for sure; if you are going to minister, you will have to study from now until Christ comes. There is no way around it, nor is there a substitute for it. The minister who finds it hard to concentrate on study may exist for a while on a song or a story, but he must eventually expound on the scripture and its importance in the lives of his listeners. Then he prays for a little dispensation of grace and then moves – really moves.

If there are no tears in the writer, there will be no tears in the reader.

A preacher must have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. The hard part is to try hardening the hide without hardening the heart.

A leader is a person who rallies others to a better future.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.