“The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.”

“What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.”

“It is not our work to make men believe: that is the work of the Holy Spirit.”

“The best law for Bible study is the law of perseverance.”

“I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.”

“A great many men are kept out of the kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else’s experience—the experience their grandmother had, their aunt, or some one in the family.”

“Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.”