Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.