God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be ‘Devoted for Life.’
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.
Nothing is impossible,’ said one of the seven sages of Greece, ‘to industry.’ Let us change the word, ‘industry,’ to ‘persevering prayer,’ and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.
I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.
No mind, no wisdom–tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom–eternal mind, eternal wisdom.