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.

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

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

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.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.