It’s true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to trouble about, or to make trouble about.
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on God being with them.
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.
It is not lost time to wait upon God!
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies – whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
God’s work is not man working for God; it is God’s own work, though often wrought through man’s hands.
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.