Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.