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.

Self-deception helps us deceive.

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.

Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.