Occupation: Missionary Birth: April 20, 1718 Death: October 9, 1747
Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey..
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of….
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfor….
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficia….
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God..
I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thou….
Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am..
There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul..
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a ….
Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!.
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassion….
I love to live on the brink of eternity..
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!.
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambiti….
I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God..
Oh that God would humble me deeply in the dust before Him! i deserve Hell every day for not lovingmy Lord more, who has, i trust, loved me and given ….
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world..
It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all..
Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body….
I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ.
Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy ….