“The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that – if it is only arranging a window blind!”

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

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.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.