““to industry.’ Let us change the word, ‘industry,’ to ‘persevering prayer,’ and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.”

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

Thanks be to God, not–only for ‘rivers of endless joys above, but for ‘rills of comfort here below.’

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time

Our prayers run along one road and God’s answers by another, and by and by they meet.

Ought to be ‘Devoted for Life.’

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.

Nothing is impossible,’ said one of the seven sages of Greece.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.

You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids – because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.