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

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.

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.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it’s rough and tumble. And it’s nothing like serving your country in the military.

I missed my home – like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country – culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.

You can’t say you love your country and hate your government.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.