If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.
Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.
Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.
Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.
If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.
Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs – an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not.
Are you in a hurry, flurried, distressed? Look up! See the Man in the Glory! Let the face of Jesus shine upon you – the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is He worried, troubled, distressed? There is no wrinkle on His brow, no least shade of anxiety. Yet the affairs are His as much as yours.
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.