Great Throughts Treasury

"More people succeed with great purpose rather than with great talent."

"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."

"Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over."

"All the gold mines in the world have not given up treasure enough to satisfy the man who has a greed for gain. The man with a hunger for honor and distinction has never been able to get enough of it, and the same can be said of everything else for which men strive and struggle and destroy each other and themselves."

"A sinner has no standing with God. He forfeits his standing when he commits sin."

"God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity."

"God keeps no half-way house. It's either heaven or hell for you and me."

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."

"Home is the place we love best and grumble the most."

"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."

"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."

"I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover."

"If you are a stranger to prayer you are a stranger to the greatest test source of power known to human beings."

"If you took no more care of yourself physically than spiritually, you'd be just as dried up physically as you are spiritually."

"I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others."

"I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother."

"If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago."

"If you don't do your part, don't blame God."

"If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch."

"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."

"More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent."

"Personal liberty is not personal license."

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

"Jesus also declared that He fulfilled the prophecies and the law of Moses, and the only effort He ever made to prove His claim was to point to the works that He did. The first thing an impostor always does is to over-prove his case."

"Saying a prayer is one thing: doing God's will is another. Both should be synonymous. Angels are angels because they do God's will. When they refuse to do God's will they become devils."

"So when you don't like the plan of redemption because the innocent suffer with the guilty, I say you don't know what is going on. It's the plan of life everywhere."

"Look into the preaching Jesus did and you will find it was aimed straight at the big sinners on the front seats."

"Some of the greatest blessings that people enjoy come from prayer."

"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."

"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."

"The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says sue them for their dough."

"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."

"The Lord is not compelled to use theologians. He can take snakes, sticks or anything else, and use them for the advancement of his cause."

"The more we do for God, the more God will do through us."

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

"The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow."

"The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to quit raising drunkards -- to put the business that makes drunkards out of business."

"The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up."

"There are some so-called Christian homes today with books on the shelves of the library that have no more business there than a rattler crawling about on the floor, or a poison within the child's reach."

"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."

"There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter."

"They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good."

"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"

"To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself."

"Whiskey is all right in its place -- but its place is hell!"

"You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that."

"Yank some of the groans out of your prayers, and shove in some shouts."

"Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you."