A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

Some people move our souls to dance.

Love makes the air light.

Truth always prevails. And I believe in that. I believe in God.

Collective crimes incriminate no one.

Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.