Sunday-isms from selected sermons!

“Why Delay Your Conversion?”

“Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It’s a willingness to do what he wants you to do.”

“You are on the devil’s side. How are you going to cross over?… Get over the old line.”

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

“Under the Sun”

“All the gold mines in the world have not given up treasure enough to satisfy the man who has a greed for gain.”

“No fountain under the sun can hold enough to satisfy an immortal spirit.”

“Destroy the Bible and all faith in God, and we might as well eat, drink and be merry and die.”

“The Second Coming of Christ”

“The second coming of Christ is the emphatic doctrine of the New Testament… mentioned more than 350 times.”

“This old world is going to wake up some morning and find that all good men and women have beaten it.”

“God’s chariot of salvation is not marked late by a single minute. Come, Lord Jesus!”

“Teach Us to Pray”

“If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.”

“The man who truly prays ‘Thy kingdom come’ cannot take his heart out of his prayer when he is out of the church.”

“Every man that God has used to halt this sin-cursed world and set it going Godward has been a Christian of prayer.”

“Spiritual Food for a Hungry World”

“Jesus was the chef, not the waiter at this banquet.”

“Other religions have preached good things, but they have no Savior who can take these things and implant them in the human heart and make them grow.”

“It is the personal reign of Christ that brings the millennium. Those who have been the greatest blessing to the world were filled with this hope and preached it.”

“Old Time Religion”

“What we need is the good old-time kind of revival that will cause you to love your neighbors, and quit talking about them.”

“Christianity is more than church membership… Many an old skin-flint is not fit for the balm of Gilead until you give him a fly blister.”

“The church is dying for religion — religion pure and undefiled.”

“Take This Child Away and Nurse It for Me”

“The work is so important that God will not trust anybody with it but a mother.”

“You have no more right to raise your children for pleasure than a bank cashier has to rifle the vaults and take the savings of the people.”

“Every child is put in a mother’s arms as a trust from God.”