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.

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

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

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

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 feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

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.