Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

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.

You can't just go around killing people. You're right. You can't go around killing people.

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

And for an apple damn'd mankind.