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.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

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.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.