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

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.

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

Till I loved I never lived.

Even indecision is a decision.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.