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.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

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

After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

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.

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

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.