“Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.”

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.

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that – if it is only arranging a window blind!

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

We began with honesty let us end in it too.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.