“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!”

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.

I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.

Speak the things you hope for. Then rearrange how you do the things to make them happen.

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.