While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

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

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

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

Seek each day to do or say something to further Christianity among the heathen.

I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.

I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.

If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

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

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

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