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

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

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 am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

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.

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.