The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.

We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God.

When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.