Every Christian should live life with an open Bible and an open map.
The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.
William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.
One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.
I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.
The less said about me the better.
To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with 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.
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.
The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.
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.
I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.
I feel that it is good to commit my Soul, my Body, and my all into the Hands of God, Then the World appears little, the Promises great; and God an allsufficient Portion.
In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?