All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

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