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.

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.

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.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.