“And at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.”

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

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

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.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster.

But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I’m more interested in, there’s the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.

Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show,

After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

Darkness is where we begin and where we end.

He implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.