If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

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.

When its no longer just about you and the sake of succeeding just to succeed, you will see miracles happen!

While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.