Occupation: Missionary Birth: September 2, 1884 Death: June 11, 1970
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies..
I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting..
When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determin….
God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the s….
Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazi….
I feel simply carried along each hour, doing my part in a plan which is far beyond myself. […] My part is to live this hour in continuous inner conve….
The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others..
But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Fathe….
We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time..
The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars..
If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are..
Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas..
I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them..
Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anythin….
Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my pro….
All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments when our minds ask: 'What next?' ….
It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for u….
We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force..
The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more impor….
The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily..
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes..