Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

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

I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.