To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fa….

I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear And slay..

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life,….

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." How often I think of ….

The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great th….

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calva….

It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines….

From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me..

If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love..

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, an….

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," the….

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'.

When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not….

continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there..

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak..

Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last..

We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are ….

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'.

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that,"….

Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough..

If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have f….