If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

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

Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.