The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

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

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

Prayer is good but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.