Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.