Thomas De Witt Talmage

My brother, I am afraid you may lose heaven the way Louis Phillipe lost his empire. The Parisian mob came around the Tuilleries. The national guard stood in defense of the palace, and the commander

If it is your duty, go to preaching the gospel. How shall you learn to preach? Just as the carpenter learns how to be a carpenter. Does he sit down and study books about tools,

It is an outrage to ask God to do a thing while we sit indolent. The prayer to be acceptable, must come not only from the heart, but from the hands. Luther came to Melancthon’s

A man of deep religious experiences is always effective. I care not how poor his voice is, or how uncomely his countenance, or how awkward his gestures, or how shabby his clothes, or how lame

Thank God there is mercy for the poor! The great Dr. Mason preached over a hundred times the same sermon, and the text was, “To the poor the gospel is preached.” Lazarus went up, while

What we all need is patience. Before we start off for the store we ought to pray for patience. We will be harassed and perplexed. Men will wrong us, and impose upon us, and cheat

It is dismal to get old, without the rejuvenating influence of religion. When we step on the down grade of life, and see that it dips in the verge of the cold river, we want

An aged mother is almost omnipotent in comfort. Why? At seventy years of age she has been through it all. At seven o’clock in the morning she goes over to comfort a young mother who

Why, the earth is like an old castle with twenty gates and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Lay aside all Christendom, and see how all heathendom is being surrounded and

If the hard brow ever relaxes, it is at a wedding. The nature cold and unsympathetic thaws out under the glow, and the tears start as we hear the bride’s dress rustling down the stairs