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.

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

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

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

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.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'