We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

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

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

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

The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.