I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.

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

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

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.

Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines he is to teach, and acquire a complete knowledge both of the Sacred Scriptures and of these philosophical and mythological dogmas which form the souls of the Buddhist and Hindu Systems.

...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.