Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by can…

- John Gibson Paton

This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come…

- John Gibson Paton

If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am…

- John Gibson Paton

At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake th…

- John Gibson Paton

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my lif…

- John Gibson Paton

As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human being can spend or be spent; and that…

- John Gibson Paton

Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.

- John Gibson Paton

... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived from every quar…

- John Gibson Paton