So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.