Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

War would end if the dead could return.

A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.