“The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.”

“The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.”

“The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.”

“O Devil, why do you hit us when we are down? Old boy, I know that you have no time for me, and I guess that you have about learned that I have no time for you. I will never apologize for anything I have ever done against you. If I have ever said anything that has does not hurt you, tell me about it, and I'll take it out of my sermon.”

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

“You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.”

“Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.”