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

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

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.

If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

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