God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

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.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.