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God, harden me against myself!

Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.

All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey ...

The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough.

Praise Him who went before to search out a Resting-place. May it be a place of victory too, for His own glory's sake.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

There are many rooms in the House of Pain.

The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done and rendered up account.

God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart ... with Himself.

We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours to win them.

As the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.

When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?

Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.

Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

He said "Love ... as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

If you would live in victory ... you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?

Continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there.

I would rather burn out than rust out.

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I wish thy way.
And when in me myself should rise,
and long for something otherwise,
Then Lord, take sword and spear
And slay.

For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.

Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.

If I do not feel far more for the grieved Saviour than for my worried self when troublesome things occur, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts.

If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

From all that dims Thy calvary O Lamb of God deliver me.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

One must as willingly be nothing, as something.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us
To will what God wills brings peace.

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps ... one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

God forgive us! God arouse us! Shame us out of our callousness! Shame us out of our sin!

Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.

The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.

Satan is so much more in earnest than we are
he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.

Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings.

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving

He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
Thy heart be troubled,
Neither let it be afraid.