“I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child, and trust.”

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.

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.

Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.

I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.