I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

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.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

Then I'll come,' said Tessa, 'I've never been on a train.' Will threw up his hands. 'That's it? You're coming because you've never been on a train before?' 'Yes.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately.

One rose says more than the dozen.