Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.