“I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child, and trust.”

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies — whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.

God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

If you want to learn to be happy, let a kid remind you how!

Children are the keys of paradise.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.