“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.”

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.

If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.

The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God’s eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.

All God’s giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God’s faithfulness.

If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

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.

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He’s even put a ‘No Fishing’ sign over the spot.

Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I’ve never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.