What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

How many million more souls are to pass into eternity without having heard the name of Jesus?

Only believe, don't fear. Our Master, Jesus, always watches over us, and no matter what the persecution, Jesus will surely overcome it.

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls.

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.

I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China!

I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.

It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.

But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.

The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article.

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

Everything I do has to come from a sense of fun and joy.

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.