I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

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.

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

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

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.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

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.