There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.