I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?