Occupation: Missionary Birth: 1813 Death: 1873
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all..
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that ….
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yo….
Sympathy is no substitute for action..
It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common ….
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of destruction are ex….
Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards m….
I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to giv….
Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone..
May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their ….
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. I….
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet..
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary..
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book..
I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward..
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege..
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?.
I am immortal till my work is accomplished.
And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the t….
Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!.
There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God..