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

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.

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

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

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!

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 in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?