“Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.”

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.

We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour’s plain command to go?

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes.

Winners don’t just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don’t change?

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.