“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.”

You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.

If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.

The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.

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.

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.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

People will not understand your journey. Walk it anyway. Sometimes crazy looks a awful lot like faith.

Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It’s an act of faith. It’s saying that even though I can’t see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.