Occupation: Missionary Birth: September 3, 1889 Death: 1929
Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate ….
Prayer is continual abandonment to God..
Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do ….
If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pa….
Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of G….
People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for suc….
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for th….
Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save….
Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indw….
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself.
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life..
Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I wor….
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In o….
The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of ou….
A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon af….
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the ….
Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives..
Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. Those who ought to become the light of the worl….
Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer.
He who searches for Divine Reality with all his heart and soul and finds it, becomes aware that, before he began to seek God, God was seeking him, in….
There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pe….