I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.