Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

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.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Just because you cannot see it now, does not mean it is not there or not possible. See yourself succeeding and own that vision through all your planning and hard work.

I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

When it comes to forks in the road, your heart always knows the answer, not your mind.

There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.