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

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

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.

I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.

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.

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

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