The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

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

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.